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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 67

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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

Atheist, Atheism, Inference

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.

Beautiful, Bible, Book

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

Bible, Biblical, Self

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Sadness, Winter, Misery

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

Religious, Perception, Shame

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

Religious, People, Honest

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

Freedom, Tyrants, Liberty

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.333, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

Simple, People, Simplicity

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

Christian, Mean, Forgiving

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

Drunk, Pet, World

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

Eye, Pet, Tears

C.S. Lewis (2014). “A Grief Observed Readers' Edition: With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely”, p.25, Faber & Faber

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)

Real, Writing, Mean

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

Men, Differences, Kind

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

Autumn, Tree, Afternoon

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

Faith, Spiritual, Inspiration

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

The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

Faith, Baby, Inspiration

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

Flower, Roots, Heaven

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

Long, Sunrise, Events

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.148, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

Long

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

Christian, Motivation, Mistake

C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

Spiritual, Children, Eye

C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

Believe, Buddhism, Islam

Letter to Sheldon Vanauken on December 14, 1950. "Sleuthing C.S. Lewis: More Light in the Shadowlands". Book by Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, p. 393, 2001.

What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.

Father, Reality, Levels

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

Party, Views, Ideas

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

People, Want, Ought

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