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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 74

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You all know, said the Guide, that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

Enemy, Guides, Said

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

Taken, Men, Voice

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

Dream, Real, Differences

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

Book, Writing, Kind

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Passion, Omnipotence, Giving

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Enormous, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.110, Harper Collins

But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

Blessed, Giving, House

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Doe, Facts, Surrender

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

Men, Mind, Foundation

C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Hurt, Reality, Feet

But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.

Queens, Gay, People

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.132, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Heart, Land, Shire

C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.204, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

Real, Lying, World

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

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

Dies

"The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast".

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

Eye, Hands, Sound

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

Long, Desire, Beloved

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

Philosophy, Mean, Doe

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

Wise, Horse, Children

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

Girl, Daughter, Mean

"Fictional characters: Mr. Tumnus, the Faun; Lucy Pevensie". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", www.imdb.com. 2005.

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

Girl, Queens, Heart

All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!!

Beautiful, Children, Believe

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

Pain, Men, Imagination

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.12, Harper Collins

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

Thinking, World, Dear

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

Time, Growing Up, Years

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

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Forgiveness, Ideas, Lovely

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