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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 54

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The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

Book, Reading, Sea Breeze

And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Men, Laughing, Honor

"The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

Novices, Screwtape Letters

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Inspirational, Joy, Sometimes

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

Honest, Being Honest

Source: www.teachingbooks.net

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

Sex, Selfish, Mean

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Way, Satisfaction, Pleasure

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

Falling In Love, May, Involuntary

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Next, Generations, Influence

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.118, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

Years, Supposing That, Temptation

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.9, Harper Collins

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

Mean, Men, Trying

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.4, Harper Collins

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Reading, Childhood, Stories

"On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Inspirational, Country, Religious

The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

Beach, Sea, Waves Breaking

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

Country, Party, Men

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

Pain, Men, Race

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

Spiritual, Fighting, Self

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Heart, Humility, Omnipotence

Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

Men, Church, Next

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul”, p.5, Harper Collins

You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

Men, Light, Doe

The Screwtape Letters ch. 12 (1941)

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

Numbers, People, Firsts

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

Atheist, Men, Brave

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.

Fun, Men, Yield

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

Appetite, Grows, Indulgence

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Inspirational, Temptation, Stakes

C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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