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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 65

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The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning

The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

Inspirational, Religious, Healing

I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.

Christian, Believe, Hands

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

Christian, People, Hypocrisy

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.18, Harper Collins

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

Recovery, Men, Essentials

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

Spiritual, Intellectual, Faces

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Children, Men, Beast

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

Atheism, May, Ifs

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

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

Talking, People, Helping

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.33, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Tests, Translate, Understood

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.98, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Dream, Spiritual, Appreciation

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Art, Philosophy, Self

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

Religious, Thinking, Mouths

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

Please will you do my job for me.

Jobs, Please

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Language, Guides, Insight

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

Song, Art, Mean

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

Sea, Temptation, Swim

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

Pain, Fear, Journey

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Children, Humorous, Parenting

C. S. Lewis (1992). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

Inspirational, Dream, Religious

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Happiness, Thinking, Awkward

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

Artist, Culture, Genius

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

Pain, Lord, Our Lord

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

Lying, Use, Impossible

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.

Eye, Moon, Night

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.154, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

Horse, Coffee, Beer

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