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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 81

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Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

Heart, Sleep, Dragons

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

Sweet, Strong, Ambition

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

Book, Hero, Long

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

Book, Reading, Woods

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

Inspirational, Mistake, Fall

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

Choices, Joy, Ransom

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

Thinking, People, Modern

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

Nurse, Castles, Stories

C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

Growing Up, Men, People

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

They Open A Door And Enter A World

Doors, World

C. S. Lewis (1994). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (rack)”, Harper Collins

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Lions, Narnia, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

C.S. Lewis (2012). “Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe”, p.147, Oberon Books

For Narnia and for Aslan!

Narnia, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe

"Fictional chracter: Peter Pevensie". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", www.imdb.com. 2005.

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Teaching, People, Appreciate

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

Book, Writing, Wish

Letter to Arthur Greeves on Edmund Spenser on March 07, 1916. "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931". Book edited by Walter Hooper, p. 170, 2004.

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

Love, Drama, Doe

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Taken, Burden Of Proof, Morality

C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.59, TellerBooks

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Men, Morality, Made

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Men, Facts, Morality

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Men, Guilt, Code Of Ethics

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

Real, Independent, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Love, Pain, Bereavement

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

Blessed, Suffering, Program

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

Believe, Miracle, Mind

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Men, Thought Provoking, Stronger

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

The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

Christian, Children, Years

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