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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Reality - Page 2

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He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

C. S. Lewis
Reality, Islands, Air

Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

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

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

C. S. Lewis
Reality, Events, Definitions

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

C. S. Lewis
Real, Reality, Risk

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

C. S. Lewis
Cutting, Reality, Thinking
C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

C. S. Lewis
Eye, Reality, Endless
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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