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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 52

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Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

Book, Extravagance, Bills

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.36, Faber & Faber

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

Men, People, Heroism

"The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 100, 1933.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

Eye, Enough, My Own

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

Reading, Two, Eating

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

Reality, Thinking, Feet

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Religion, Trying, Succeed

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

Believe, Animal, Men

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Heart, Tears, Gone

C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

Beautiful, Voice, Nephew

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.13, Harper Collins

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Mean, May, Fortune

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Reality, Makers, Great Divorce

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

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Individuality, Privilege, Heal

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Love, Knowledge, Mad

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

God, Faith, Christian

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Ideas, Narnia

"If you didn't find Narnia in your own wardrobe". www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2005.

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Running, Doubt, Narnia

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Hands, Want, Screwtape Letters

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.36, Harper Collins

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Animal, Men, Doe

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Atheist, Lying, Waiting

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Needs, Needed, Ifs

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

Men, Thinking, Wife

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.115, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.

Running, Men, Long

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

Facts, Disguise, Betray

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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