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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 63

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You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

Eggs, Goes On

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

Right Direction

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.85, HarperCollins UK

We must get over wanting to be needed.

Needed, Get Over

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

Men, World, Screwtape Letters

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

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

Mean, Action, Compelled

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The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to spread his message. This is about as remarkable a claim as could be stated, and yet it is tossed out lightly. Christians seem to imagine that "God did it" is as plausible as the natural explanation that stories grow with the retelling. The Christian has the burden of proof, and it's an enormous burden given this enormous claim.

Christian, Jesus, Imagine

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

Father, Almost Perfect, Roots

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Views, Hands, Serious

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.103, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.

Christian, Teacher, People

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.79, HarperCollins UK

God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

Children, Writing, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.60, HarperCollins UK

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

Way, Speak, Deals

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I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

Believe, Writing, Men

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If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

Sorrow, Rope, World

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.20, Faber & Faber

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

Mean, Conceited, Thinking

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

Dream, Real, Should Have

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Tree, Humanity, Looks

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

Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.

War, Thinking, Civilization

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.311, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

Christian, Cutting, Men

Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Heart, Evil, Desire

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.

Mother, Taken, Heart

And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.

Beautiful, Mother, Children

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.310, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Farewell, Adventure, Men

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

Heart, Imagination, Heaven

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

Son, Excess, Littles

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.

Law, Giving, Tasks

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