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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 56

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There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

Law, Nails, Morality

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Christian, Brain, Endeavor

We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy.

Girl, Daughter, Kings

C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

Stars, Said, Retired

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.36, Harper Collins

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Wonder, Silver, Chairs

Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

Beautiful, May, Narnia

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.149, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

Force, States, Dread

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

Impossible, Explanation

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

Real, Different, Moments

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

Littles, Little Things, Hardest

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

Feelings, Obligation, Feels

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

Mean, Really Mean

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

Art, Excellence, Firsts

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.

Snow, Feelings, Mouths

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

Cat, Men, Might

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

Decay, Holy Places, Amulets

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

Differences, World, Half Life

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

School, Holiday, Term

'Suprised by Joy' (1955) ch. 4

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

Sports, Tyrants, Saint

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

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

Christian, Religious, Art

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Pain, Wake Up, World

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

Dream, Memories, Real

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.130, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and tied up." "Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!" cheeped the Mouse. "Draw and fight or I'll beat you black and blue with the flat." "I haven't got one," said Eustace. "I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting." "Do I understand," said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, "that you do not intend to give me satisfaction?

Believe, Fighting, Blue

C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

Eye, Dark, Light

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

Mean, Our World, Lions

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