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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

C. S. Lewis
Fire, Hands, Water
C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

C. S. Lewis
Men, Water, Design
C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

C. S. Lewis
Thinking, Talking, Water
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

C. S. Lewis
Dark, Blood, Water
C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

C. S. Lewis
Children, Water, Gone

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, Water, Inquiry

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

C. S. Lewis
Powerful, Water, Stuff
C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis
Baby, Water, Swim

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

C. S. Lewis
Play, Water, Inquiry

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

C. S. Lewis
Humility, Men, Water
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.112, HarperCollins UK

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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