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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 58

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You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Religious, Insanity, Knows

C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.173, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

Games, Sin, Solemn

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.78, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Matter, Natural, Inferiors

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.71, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

Fighting, Men, Style

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Wise, Wisdom, Earth

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

People, Shame, Frankness

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

God, Scripture, Ethical

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

Laughter, Roaring, Study

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

Spiritual, Blessed, Body

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Facts, Favour, Insight

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

Running, Country, Men

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Thinking, People, Want

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

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

Selfish, Thinking, Evil

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.6, Harper Collins

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.

Christian, Believe, Thinking

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

Sex, Lying, Past

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

Wisdom, Mistake, Imperfection

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Wisdom, Hands, Would Be

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

Plans, Seems

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Bible, Jobs, Thinking

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

Sweet, Clever, Maids

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

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

Giving, Religion, Followers

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

Inspirational, Knowing, May

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

Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

Believe, Struggle, Talking

What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

Struggle, Fate, Opportunity

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

If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.

Blow, House Of Cards, Imagination

C.S. Lewis (2014). “A Grief Observed Readers' Edition: With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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