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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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Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but inthe desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal, is only yours when what you most desire is just out of your reach. C. S. Lewis
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts..."
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for..."
The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career. C. S. Lewis
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. C. S. Lewis
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. C. S. Lewis
I felt ashamed."But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal."But how could you help that?"Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help? C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "IF you think you can your probally right, if you think you..."
IF you think you can your probally right, if you think you can't, your probally right, C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "If you look upon ham and eggs and lust, you have already..."
If you look upon ham and eggs and lust, you have already committed breakfast in your heart. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Where sky and water meet, Where the waves grow sweet, Doubt..."
Where sky and water meet, Where the waves grow sweet, Doubt not, Reepicheep, To find all you seek, There is the utter East. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "The history of literature is very far from being one of simple..."
The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress. C. S. Lewis
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come. C. S. Lewis
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize. C. S. Lewis
It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means......"
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please. C. S. Lewis

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