C. S. Lewis Quotes about Moon

You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your

You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.

C. S. Lewis

Dirty, Moon, Men

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

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

C. S. Lewis

Moon, Men, Might

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.

C. S. Lewis

Eye, Moon, Night

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.154, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

C. S. Lewis

Real, Moon, Men

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The Dark Tower and Other Stories”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt