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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 78

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If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

Mean, Love Is, May

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

Stories, Physics, Modern

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.19, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.

Plato, Doctors, Catholic

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

Inspirational, Religious, Understanding

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

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

Inspirational, Religious, Real

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

Growth, Skepticism, Theology

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

Ethos, Law, Ideas

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.100, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

Errors, Doe, Dignity

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.

Thinking, Groups, Different

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

You people have no imagination!

People, Imagination

"Fictional character: Reepicheep". "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian", 2008.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Thinking, Years, People

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

Hero, Men, Soul

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

Kings, Children, Book

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

Hell

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

People, Giving, Income

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

Mood Changes, Sincere, Hypocritical

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.101, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

Humble, Humility, Pride

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

His Love

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

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

Miracle, Facts, Treatment

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.140, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

Pain, War, Grief

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

Song, Men, Thinking

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

Life Happiness, Chiefs, Goods

Letter to Arthur Greeves on December 29, 1935. "They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963)". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 477, 1979.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

First Love, People, Novelists

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Humility, Men, Water

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.112, HarperCollins UK

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

Hatred, Three, Results

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