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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 73

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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Inspirational, Pleasure, Remembered

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

Enemy, Ordinary, Pressure

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters”, p.2, Harper Collins

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

Nice, Boys, Different

C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

Nice, Thinking, Worst Moments

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

Gratitude, Doors, Silence

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Screwtape Letters, Ought

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

Names, World, Should

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Heart, Evil, Want

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.

Book, Reading, Age

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

Nice, Smart, Stupid

They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

Pet, Mouths, Noise

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.96, Harper Collins

God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

Plato, Children, Real

Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

Stars, Children, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year With Aslan: Words of Wisdom and Reflection from the Chronicles of Narnia”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Life, Player, Games

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.20, Faber & Faber

Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of that,' said Aslan. 'Have you not guessed?' Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. 'There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your father and mother and all of you are- as you used to call it in the Shadowlands- dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

Mother, Dream, Morning

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Political, Way, Fields

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

Angel, Men, Birds Wings

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.6, Harper Collins

Every joy is beyond all others.

Joy

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

Poet, Invention, Conscious

C. S. Lewis (1990). “Poetry and prose in the sixteenth century”, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Children, Humor, Ifs

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

Looks, Said, All Time

C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Shells, Trouble, Force

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Mean, Thinking, Faces

"Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1956.

Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

Real, Night, Snow

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.12, Faber & Faber

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

Mean, Creating, Doe

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Words”, p.317, Cambridge University Press

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