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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Lying

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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

Lying, Wind, Trying

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

God, Christian, Lying

When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

Beautiful, Lying, Play

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Motivational, Strong, Lying

When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

Lying, Character, Men

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.23, Harper Collins

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

Lying, Doe, Unions

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

Christian, Lying, Pregnancy

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

Lying, Made, Knows

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

Lying, Sainthood, Action

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

Atheist, Zoos, Lying

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

Lying, Frustration, Hands

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Christian, Plato, Lying

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

Attitude, Lying, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.138, HarperCollins UK

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

Lying, Bridges, Rivers

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.183, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

Lying, Thinking, Giving

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.9, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

Kings, Lying, Light

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

Lying, Sea, Land

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.113, Harper Collins

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Lying, Serious Things, Truthful

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.21, Harper Collins

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Truth, Lying, Myth

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Atheist, Lying, Waiting

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

Sex, Lying, Past

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Lying, Waiting, Gone

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

Lying, Use, Impossible

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

Lying, Play, Joy

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

Lying, Cutting, Night

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.120, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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