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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 72

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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Reality, Morality, Pretending

Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.

Mean, People, Three

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

Mother, Art, Lust

Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

Hate, Believe, Hatred

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

Believe, Men, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.32, Harper Collins

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

Summer, Daughter, War

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.113, Harper Collins

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

Wisdom, Believe, Ideas

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

Grief, Sorrow, Maps

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash.

Kings, Eye, Warrior

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VII: The Last Battle”, p.94, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

Wisdom, Men, House

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Character, Play, Plot

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.

Kings, Doors, Narnia

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

Girl, Kings, Sorry

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year With Aslan: Words of Wisdom and Reflection from the Chronicles of Narnia”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

Believe, Reality, Religion

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Would Be, Looks, Ashamed

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Jesus, Christ, Persons

"The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

Believe, Book, Heart

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.223, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Brother, Husband, Home

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

Forgiving, Sometimes, God Forgives

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.15, Faber & Faber

I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.

Jesus, Morning, Zoos

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell.

Sweet, Fire, Smell

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

Years, Ideas, Sound

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

Girl, Prayer, Mean

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

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Faces

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

Father, Mean, Son

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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