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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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C. S. Lewis quote: "Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that..."
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Always winter but never Christmas."
Always winter but never Christmas. C. S. Lewis
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. C. S. Lewis
We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented? C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change...."
I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "I naturally loathe nearly all hymns"
I naturally loathe nearly all hymns C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by..."
the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is. C. S. Lewis
Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there..."
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in..."
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) C. S. Lewis
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. C. S. Lewis
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would..."
No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "All times may be soon to Aslan; but in my home all hungry..."
All times may be soon to Aslan; but in my home all hungry times are one o'clock. C. S. Lewis
All in a moment of time he perceived that what was, to human philologists, a merely accidental resemblance of two sounds, was in truth no accident. The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, was purely terrestrial. C. S. Lewis

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