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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 49

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The search for a suitable church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or

The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

Attitude, Humble, Men

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Kings, Mean, Men

C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Wisdom, Character, Self

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Waiting, Distraction, Ends

To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.

Father, Real, Son

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

Language, Communicate, Mediums

C. S. Lewis (1990). “Studies in Words”, p.313, Cambridge University Press

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

Humility, Men, Needs

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Party, Views, Order

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.80, HarperCollins UK

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Inspirational, Want, Narnia

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Inspirational, Father, Light

C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Men, Independence, Instruments

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

Time, Grace, Done

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

Motivational, Religion, Slave

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.100, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

Inspirational, Impossible Things, Self

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

Jobs, Writing, Wonderful

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

Wisdom, Taken, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

Wisdom, May, Satisfied

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.38, Harper Collins

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Prayer, Essence, May

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

Sleep, Doe, Needs

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

Filling Up, Hours, Enough

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.96, HarperCollins UK

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

Christian, Men, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

Dragons, Profound, Desire

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Wise, Boys, Thinking

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Childhood, Adults, Approval

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Firsts, Put First Things First, First Things First

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.310, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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