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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 59

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A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Creating, Machines, World

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

Real, War, Humility

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Links, Graves, Symbols

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.12, Faber & Faber

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Lying, Waiting, Gone

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

Divine, Divine Nature, Wounds

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

Daughter, Winter, Luck

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.109, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Symphony, Would Be, Asking

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

Ideas, Giving, Appetite

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.24, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.

Believe, Matter, Firsts

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.102, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

Believe, Men, Ifs

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Screwtape Letters, Merciful

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.9, Harper Collins

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Mean, Men, Please

C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.63, TellerBooks

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Men, Decent, Decent Man

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

Beloved

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

School, Son, Parent

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

Hands, Fruit

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

Fall, Men, Two

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

God, Creatures, Seems

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.

Christian, Good Man, Fresh Start

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.57, HarperCollins UK

The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.

Wise, Teaching, Historical

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

Facts, Enough, Method

The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism Book Two Chapter I (p. 37)

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

Inspirational, Doors, Lasts

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.41, Harper Collins

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

Say Anything, Good Enough, Enough

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

Writing, Stories, Moral

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Heaven, Hell, Variety

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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