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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: "But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with..."
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes. C. S. Lewis
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man, the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock... the trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God in the dock. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household..."
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "What we learn from experience depends on the kind of..."
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience,..."
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. C. S. Lewis
the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to..."
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis
I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him (what would seem so necessary for the first Christian theologian) that of lucidity and orderly exposition. C. S. Lewis
Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride-pride at his own humility-will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt-and so on, for as many stages as you please. C. S. Lewis
All the practical principles behind the Innovator's case for posterity, or society, or the species, are there from time immemorial in the Tao. But they are nowhere else. Unless you accept these without question as being to the world of action what axioms are to the world of theory, you can have no practical principles whatsoever. You cannot reach them as conclusions: they are premises. (...) If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly, if nothing is obligatory for its own... C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of..."
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books..."
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. C. S. Lewis
The rescue of drowning men i? a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. It seems to me that all political duties (among which I include military duties) are of this kind. A man may have to die for our country, but no man must, in an exclusive sense, live for his country. C. S. Lewis
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others... but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped... C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the..."
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. C. S. Lewis

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