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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Reality

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I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

Forgiveness, Reality, Thinking

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

Life, Animal, Reality

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Reality, Complicated, Odd

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

Mother, Reality, Important

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Reality, Self, Giving

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

Running, Reality, Machines

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Reality, Mind, Done

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Reality, Perfect, Mind

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

Grief, Blessed, Reality

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

Spiritual, Sweet, Reality

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Wise, Reality, Men

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Reality, Unbearable

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.15, Faber & Faber

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

Reality, Quality, Way

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

Wise, Reality, Men

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

Reality, Doe, Add

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

Believe, Reality, Two

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

Reality, Thinking, Feet

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Reality, Makers, Great Divorce

"The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

Religious, Reading, Reality

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Reality, Feet, Shadow

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

Pain, Reality, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.

Father, Reality, Levels

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Reality, Morality, Pretending

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

Believe, Reality, Religion

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Hurt, Reality, Feet

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