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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: "It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood..."
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "I have the deepest respect even for Pagan myths, still more..."
I have the deepest respect even for Pagan myths, still more for the myths in Holy Scripture. C. S. Lewis
Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in ease and safety, issue exhortations to men in the front line. C. S. Lewis
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection. C. S. Lewis
The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes..."
It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to..."
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your..."
That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality. C. S. Lewis
But it is in the rooms, not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. C. S. Lewis
It was, no doubt, a "rum do"-the rummest do that had ever befallen him. The mere sensation of being clean all over would have made it that even apart from the crimson robe and the fact that his own mouth kept on uttering sounds that he did not understand and without his own consent. But it was not by any means the first inexplicable thing that had been done to him. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Sleep came like a fruit which falls into the hand almost..."
Sleep came like a fruit which falls into the hand almost before you have touched it. C. S. Lewis
Ever since he had discovered the rationality of the hrossa he had been haunted by a conscientious scruple as to whether it might not be his duty to undertake their religious instruction; now as a result of his tentative efforts, he found himself being treated as if he were the savage and being given a first sketch of civilized religion-a sort of hrossian equivalent of the shorter catechism. C. S. Lewis
When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. C. S. Lewis
Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun. C. S. Lewis

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