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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 60

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God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Sometimes, Speak, Seems

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.

Thinking, Important, Fundamentals

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.38, Harper Collins

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Writing, Trying, Pieces

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

Powerful, Destiny, Men

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.353, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

Wish, Invisible

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

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

Mean, Care, Do You Love Me

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Nonsense, Remains

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words compelle intrare, compel them to come in, have been so abused by wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Struggle, Eye, Men

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

Christian, Men, Views

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Order, Two, Mind

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

Children, Attitude, Would Be

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

Educational, Men, Differences

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.49, TellerBooks

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

Philosophy, Feelings, Given

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.50, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Real, Believe, Men

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

Father, Book, Men

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Suffering, Together, Enjoy

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

Children, Nephew, Way

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew”, p.136, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

Men, Trying, Done

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

Views, Essence, Natural

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.137, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

Determination, Love Is, Cost

Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.

Christian, Mean, Thinking

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

Hate, People, Mind

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.

Army, Men, Dwarves

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.63, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

Play, Stage, Walks

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

Thinking, People, Naked

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