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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 64

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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

Men, Rights, Differences

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

Sweet, Clever, Intellectual

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

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

Wrinkles, Long, Age

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.79, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

Believe, Writing, Light

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I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Prayer, Mean, Church

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If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

Selfish, People, Feelings

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

Boys, Thinking, Years

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Wisdom, Men, Virtue

C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

Pain, Reality, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

War, Men, Should Have

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Firsts, Speak, Spoiled

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

Years, Littles, Bigger

C. S. Lewis (2001). “The Wisdom of Narnia”, HarperCollins

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

Men, Prostitution, Form

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Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Mean, Independence, Progress

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.346, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Country, Religion, One Day

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.131, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

Book, Errors, Sea

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Image and Imagination”, p.14, Harper Collins

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

Men, Opposites, May

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Wisdom, Use, Emergencies

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

Writing, Mind, Moral

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

Hatred, Distinction

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

Loneliness, Envy, Hatred

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

Omnipotence, Cosmic, Ifs

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Honey, Welfare, Possibility

There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?

Men, Thinking, Matter

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

Energy, Sin, Holy

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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