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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 61

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The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

Wisdom, Different, Gaps

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

Years, Care, Next

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

Hate, People, Escapism

Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Country, Games, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

Thinking, Heaven, Earth

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

Thinking, Breathing, Events

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

Home, May, Accurate

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

Christian, Real, Different

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.110, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!

Heart, Angel, Men

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Christian, Men, Knowing

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Order, Perfect, Needs

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

Wisdom, Men, Law

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.18, Harper Collins

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

Book, Mean, Stories

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

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

Moon, Men, Might

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

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

Eye, Dragons, Talking

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Two, Knows, Commandments

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

Heart, Joy, Ugly

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

Christian, God Love, Lovable

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.119, Harper Collins

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

Real, Miracle, Christianity

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

Peace, War, Civilization

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

Daughter, Long, Joy

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

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

Mean, People, Demon

C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

Time, Law, Space

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.78, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Man must endure his going hence.

Tombstone, Men, Endure

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

Inspirational, Life, Real

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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