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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 68

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Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

Eye, Trying, Biting

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

Narnia, Lion Witch Wardrobe, Wardrobe

"Fictional character: Lucy Pevensie". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", 2005.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

Abnormal, Wonderful, Norm

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Lions, Safe, Witch

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

Play, Water, Inquiry

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

Voice, Silence, Be Confident

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

Country, Thinking, Talking

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

Real, Thinking, House

And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?

Children, Cost, Deeds

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Taste, Kind, Tragic

The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

Real, Moon, Men

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The Dark Tower and Other Stories”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

Sadness, Humility, Thinking

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Men, Tyrants, Screwtape Letters

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

Class, Giving, Age

What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

Running, Believe, Humility

He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

Song, Children, Thinking

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Wish, Leisure, Wit

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

So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.

Men, Suffering, Needs

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

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

Eye, Advice, Used

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year With Aslan: Words of Wisdom and Reflection from the Chronicles of Narnia”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

Love You, Brain, Use

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

When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.

Heart, Men, Years

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.91, HarperCollins UK

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

Sleep, Night, Doors

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.20, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.

Ghost, Wells, Feels

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.23, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

Names, Voice, Feelings

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.

Sleep, Use, Peter

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.103, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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