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C. S. Lewis Quotes

C. S. Lewis quotes

British Author, Writer November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963

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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were..."
And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be. C. S. Lewis
Thank Heaven," thought Ransom, "he is only teaching her vanity"; for he and feared something worse. Yet could it be possible, in the long run, to wear clothes without learning modesty, and through modesty lasciviousness? C. S. Lewis
Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not..."
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He..."
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the..."
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis
If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note. C. S. Lewis
As there is one Face above all worlds merely to see which is irrevocable joy, so at the bottom of all worlds that face is waiting whose sight alone is the misery from which none who beholds it can recover. C. S. Lewis
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. C. S. Lewis
Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against..."
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! C. S. Lewis
Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war. C. S. Lewis
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal. C. S. Lewis

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