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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 51

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All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

Thinking, Done, May

C. S. Lewis (1989). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, p.36, Dramatic Publishing

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

Thinking, Doe, May

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Should Have, Perfect, Firsts

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.43, Harper Collins

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

Book, Wish, Ordinary

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.218, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

Heaven, Able, Hell

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

Book, Reading, Permit

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

Golden, Fool, Praying

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

Desire, Want, Littles

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Veils, Rich, Myth

"On Stories and Other Essays on Literature". Book by C. S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper, "Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings", p. 90, 1982.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Inspirational, Each Day, Becoming

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Prayer, Mind, Sitting

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

Annoying, Moments, Feels

"The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.

Kings, Cutting, Mind

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.112, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Ambition, Wish, Looks

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

People, Lovers, Absurd

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

Happiness, Giving Up, Fall

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Men, Cities, Together

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Men, Littles, Resistance

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

School, America, Should

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

Real, Reading, Lust

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

Eye, Punishment, Lazarus

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.159, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'

Use, Systematic, Scripture

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The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun. (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)

Running, Art, Light

"The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, pp. 186-187, 1933.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Needs, Good Person, Repent

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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