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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 70

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I don't want to hold you hand!

I don't want to hold you hand!

Hands, Want

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

Thinking, Want, Said

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

Findings

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

Lying, Play, Joy

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

Children, Men, Reader

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Cracks, Tables, Narnia

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

Race, Warning, World

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia 7-in-1 Bundle with Bonus Book, Boxen”, p.98, HarperCollins UK

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

Caring, Men, Two

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

The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

Men, Elephants, Design

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

Religious, Feelings, Doubt

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

Running, Fire, Games

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

Home, Way, Christ

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Men, Wonder, God Knows

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Goodbye, Giving, Special

Always winter but never Christmas.

Christmas, Winter, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

C.S Lewis, Adrian Mitchell (2012). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, p.45, Oberon Books

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

Adventure, Mean, Darkness

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

Believe, Clothes, Tunes

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.17, Harper Collins

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

Real, Fighting, Self

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

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

Justice, Nephew, Speech

"The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew".

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Doe, Should, Sensible

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

Mistake, Mean, Calling

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

Want, Littles, Pupils

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

Flower, Boys, Men

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

Elephants, Track, Missing

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.

Thinking, Law, Two

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