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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 53

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You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

Gone, Temples, Found

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

Earth, Bows, Narnia

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.157, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

Religion, Stronger, Looks

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Peace, War, Community

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.365, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

Strong, Writing, Lust

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That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Giving, Forever, Today

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

Father, Book, Men

The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

Mother, Father, Ocean

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.

Mean, Giving Money, Trying

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

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Men, World, Be A Man

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

Christian, Soul, Unity

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Heaven, Care, Ordinary

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.91, Harper Collins

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

Girl, Book, Reading

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.106, Harper Collins

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

Love, Hurt, Losing

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Joy, Desire, Pilgrim

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

People, Magic, Way

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

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

Age, Youth, Surface

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

Heart, Eye, Recognition

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.53, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

Christian, Ideas, Whole

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

Religious, Reading, Reality

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

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

Christian, Mean, Thinking

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Reality, Feet, Shadow

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

Giving, Hatred, May

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Christian, Prayer, World

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Always Trying, Firsts, Helping

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

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