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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.

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
Inspirational, Life, Spiritual
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

C. S. Lewis
Narrative, Miraculous, Has Beens
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

C. S. Lewis
Adults, Approval, Treats
C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

C. S. Lewis
Father, Desire, Moments

Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

C. S. Lewis
Fashion, Acceptance, Intellectual
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

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

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

C. S. Lewis
Thinking, Giving, Advice

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

C. S. Lewis
Falling In Love, Wall, Events
C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

C. S. Lewis
Children, Book, Writing

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

C. S. Lewis
Christian, Fresh Start, Belief
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.57, HarperCollins UK

No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, Religious, Hands
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C. S. Lewis
Christian, Mean, People
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.113, HarperCollins UK

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

C. S. Lewis
Christian, Light, Lasts
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

C. S. Lewis
Real, Decay, Logic

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

C. S. Lewis
Heart, Judgement, Emotion
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

C. S. Lewis
Sleep, Names, Voice

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

C. S. Lewis
Thinking, Achievement, Cost
C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.27, Harper Collins

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.

C. S. Lewis
Writing
C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

C. S. Lewis
Believe, Mean, Thinking

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

C. S. Lewis
Friendship, Desire, Satisfaction
"Joyful Christian".

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

C. S. Lewis
Men, Musician, Poet

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

C. S. Lewis
Heaven, Made, Seems
C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If things are real, they're there all the time.

C. S. Lewis
Real, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year With Aslan: Words of Wisdom and Reflection from the Chronicles of Narnia”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

C. S. Lewis
Stubborn, Ransom, Well Said
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

C. S. Lewis
Heart, Mean, Acceptance
"The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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