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Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

C. S. Lewis
Fear, Nice, House
C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

C. S. Lewis
Prayer, Order, House
C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

Imagine yourself as a living house.

C. S. Lewis
House, Imagine
C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.298, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

C. S. Lewis
Real, Thinking, House

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

C. S. Lewis
Wisdom, Men, House
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

C. S. Lewis
Blessed, Giving, House

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

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

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

C. S. Lewis
Talking, Water, House
C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.72, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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