Top 25 Quotes by C. S. Lewis of 2057 - Page 18

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.

C. S. Lewis

Thinking, Errors, Evil

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Real, Self

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

C. S. Lewis

Death, Home, Thinking

Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.

C. S. Lewis

Spiritual, Thinking, Form

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

C. S. Lewis

Children, Book, Reading

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

C. S. Lewis

Lying, Sainthood, Action

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

C. S. Lewis

Girl, Song, Sight

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

C. S. Lewis

Losing Someone, Someone You Love, Might

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

C. S. Lewis

Self, Proud, Danger

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Liars, Devil

"The Screwtape Letters".

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

C. S. Lewis

Silly, Men, Thinking

"A Grief Observed".

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

C. S. Lewis

Honesty, Men, Thinking

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

C. S. Lewis

Desire, Littles, Too Much

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

C. S. Lewis

Unhappy, World, Odd

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

C. S. Lewis

Temptation, Looks, Facts

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

C. S. Lewis

Thinking, Squares, Yellow

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

C. S. Lewis

Birthday, Talking, Age

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Book, Writing

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

C. S. Lewis

Finding Yourself, Turns, Ifs

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

C. S. Lewis

Hurt, Kindness, Real

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

C. S. Lewis

Atheist, Zoos, Lying

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

C. S. Lewis

Real, Heaven, Great Divorce

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

C. S. Lewis

Pride, Long, Temptation

I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.

C. S. Lewis

Grief, Thinking, Frustration

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.24, Faber & Faber

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Learning, People

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