Top 25 Quotes by C. S. Lewis of 2057 - Page 55

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

C. S. Lewis

Religious, People, Religion

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

C. S. Lewis

Couple, Husband, Book

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

The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

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Independence, Progress, Honey

Emeth speaking of Aslan, "Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek...And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog

C. S. Lewis

Dog, Kings, Long

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

C. S. Lewis

Heart, Cutting, Tasks

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.

C. S. Lewis

Squares, Three, Cubes

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

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Onward And Upward, Narnia

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

C. S. Lewis

Religion, Christianity, Know Yourself

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.109, HarperCollins UK

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

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Christian, Faithfulness, Virtue

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

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World, Modern, Humans

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Special, Needs

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

C. S. Lewis

Real, Believe, Men

A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

C. S. Lewis

Song, Sleep, Thinking

A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says: - What is this, a joke? - Сhurch is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members.

C. S. Lewis

Organization, Catholic, Bars

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

C. S. Lewis

Demand, Deeds, Rewards

"The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis, California Books Inc., (p. 36), August 7, 2014.

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

C. S. Lewis

Country, People, Secret

C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

C. S. Lewis

Grace, Humour, Consoling

Things always work according to their nature.

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C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

C. S. Lewis

Art, Strong, Desire

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

C. S. Lewis

Men, Differences, Doe

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

C. S. Lewis

Giving Up, Men, Type

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

C. S. Lewis

Pain, Heaven, Desire

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

C. S. Lewis

Love, Happiness, Joy

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

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Ideas, Doctrine