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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 76

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In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to

In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.

Teacher, Real, Teaching

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

Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

Wall, Men, Hair

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

Morning, Men, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.44, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

Christian, Strong, Drinking

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

Attitude, Real, Passion

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.38, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

Light, Giants, Landscape

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

Doe, Bones, Felt

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

Talking, Not Talking

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.65, Harper Collins

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

Two, Combination, Acquire

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

Christian, World, Next

C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

Mean, Feelings, Behavior

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

Demand, His Love, Natural

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.158, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Long, Promise, Delight

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

Way, Satan, Mets

The longest way round is the shortest way home

Home, Way, Rounds

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.81, HarperCollins UK

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

Facts, Concrete, Generalities

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

Real, Simplicity, Darkness

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Men, Religion, Would Be

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

Care, Dunces, Interest

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

Autumn, Seasons

Why should your heart not dance?

Heart, Should

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

Memories, Expectations, Whole Life

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.

Men, Shadow, Important

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

Prayer, Animal, Differences

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

Expression, Names, Culture

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