C. S. Lewis Quotes

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

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  • Life
  • Reality
  • Respect

• 'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)

  

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• True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

  

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  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

  

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  • Justice
  • Moral
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• No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

  

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• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

  

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• Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

  

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  • Sad

• But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

  

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  • God
  • Men
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• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

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  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

  

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

  

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  • Time

• Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

  

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  • Life
  • God
  • Proud

• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  

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  • Reason
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• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  

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  • World
  • God

• Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

  

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  • Life
  • Good
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• The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

  

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• It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

  

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• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

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  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

  

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  • Friendship
  • Expression
  • Would Be

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

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  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  

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  • Love
  • Power
  • Miracles

• Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

  

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• Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

  

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• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

  

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