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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 82

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As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

Long, Understanding, Victory

"The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

Christian, Men, Solitude

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Wisdom, Reasoning, Judged

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

Hands, Purpose, Made

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

Two, Way, Poet

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.2, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Skills, Judging, Results

"A Preface to Paradise Lost". Book by C. S. Lewis. Chapter 2: "Is Criticism Possible?", 1942.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

People, Body, Praise

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.117, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Wisdom, Examination, Dignity

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

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Wisdom, Men, Turns

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.66, TellerBooks

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

Wisdom, Grows, Ifs

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Motive, Saved, Ifs

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Suffering, Hopeless, Tribulation

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

Clothes, Ulster, Weekdays

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

Believe, Men, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

Individual Choice, Choices, World

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

War, Thinking, May

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

Truth Is, Norm, Truth And Falsehood

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Abstract, Intellect, Humans

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

Cutting, Reality, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

Variation, Obvious, Norm

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Philosophy, Had Enough, Pleasure

C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

Wisdom, Giving, Body

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

Differences, Infinite, Away From You

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

Eye, Reality, Endless

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Life And Death, Taste, Horror

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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