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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Wisdom - Page 2

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I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

Wisdom, Telephones, Mercy

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Wisdom, Medicine, Disease

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Wisdom, Eternity, Childishness

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

Wisdom, Individuality, One Day

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

Wisdom, Children, Men

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

Dream, Wisdom, Love You

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

Christian, Wisdom, Blessed

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Wisdom, Humility, Perfect

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.38, Harper Collins

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

Wisdom, Art, Teach

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

Wisdom, Thinking, Differences

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

Wisdom, Strong, Passion

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Wisdom, Character, Self

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

Wisdom, Taken, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

Wisdom, May, Satisfied

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.38, Harper Collins

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

Mother, Wisdom, Children

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Wise, Wisdom, Earth

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

Wisdom, Mistake, Imperfection

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Wisdom, Hands, Would Be

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

Wisdom, Different, Gaps

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

Wisdom, Men, Law

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.18, Harper Collins

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Wisdom, Heaven, Soul

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

The absent are easily refuted.

Wisdom, Absent

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Wisdom, Men, Virtue

C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Wisdom, Use, Emergencies

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

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

Wisdom, Believe, Ideas

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