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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Heart - Page 2

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We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.

We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.

Life, Heart, Eye

But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.

Heart, Voice, Smell

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.137, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

Uplifting, Angel, Heart

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.

Heart, Men, Doors

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.

Running, Heart, Exercise

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Heart, Tears, Gone

C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

Heart, Eye, Recognition

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.53, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Heart, Humility, Omnipotence

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

Heart, Cutting, Tasks

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!

Heart, Angel, Men

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

Heart, Joy, Ugly

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Heart, Dark, What Is Love

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Heart, Evil, Desire

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

Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.

Mother, Taken, Heart

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

Heart, Imagination, Heaven

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

Heart, Love Is, Broken

When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.

Heart, Men, Years

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.91, HarperCollins UK

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

Believe, Book, Heart

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.223, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Heart, Evil, Want

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

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Heart, Land, Shire

C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.204, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

Girl, Queens, Heart

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

Wisdom, Heart, Love Is

Why should your heart not dance?

Heart, Should

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

Heart, Facts, Christianity

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

Book, Heart, Iron

"The Gods Return to Earth". "Time and Tide", (p. 1082), August 14, 1954.

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