Top 25 Quotes by C. S. Lewis of 2057 - Page 23

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

Impatient, Oneself

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.22, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

C. S. Lewis

Love You, First Love, Love Is

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

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Faith, Believe, Knows

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

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Sleep, Insomnia, Trying

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

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Train Of Thought, Waiting, Temptation

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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Friendship, Personality, Catholic

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

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Bible, Biblical, Way

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

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Faith, Inspiration, Evil

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.31, Harper Collins

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

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Christian, Joy, Doe

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

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Love, Inspirational, Vulnerable

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

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Pain, Littles, Helping

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.13, Harper Collins

I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

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Love, Sides, Narnia

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.132, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

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People, Ordinary, Way

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

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Mistake, Sleep, Tyrants

"A Reply to Professor Haldane (1946)". "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1966.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

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Animal, Emotion, Aids

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

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

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Blind, Conscience, Disobedience

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

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Education, Intelligent, Would Be

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.

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Reading, Eye, Thinking

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

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Heart, Thinking, Heaven

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

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Forgiving, Mercy, Term

"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..."

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Wish, Steps, Spirit

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