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its evident wish to be for ever a sound and only a sound in the thickest centre of untravelled woods. — C.S. Lewis

Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do? — C.S. Lewis

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace.
"What a curious name!"
"Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly. — C.S. Lewis

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. — C.S. Lewis

It is not fatigue simply as such that produces the anger, but unexpected demands on a man already tired. — C.S. Lewis

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C.S. Lewis

Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith. — C.S. Lewis

For a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. — C.S. Lewis

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones. — C.S. Lewis

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. — C.S. Lewis

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion. — C.S. Lewis

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself. — C.S. Lewis

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. — C.S. Lewis

I'd like to walk there again. It was so lonely - a nice kind of loneliness, and all grass and clover and soft sea air. — C.S. Lewis

I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were really people like you. Yet there you are. — C.S. Lewis

A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian. — C.S. Lewis

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. — C.S. Lewis

Freedom always comes with a price. — C.S. Lewis

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily. — C.S. Lewis

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. — C.S. Lewis

Come and help to carry the tray down and we'll have breakfast. What a mercy I thought of bringing the breadknife. — C.S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story. — C.S. Lewis

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy. — C.S. Lewis

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? — C.S. Lewis

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived. — C.S. Lewis

The miracle of the Resurrection, and the theology of that miracle, comes first: the biography comes later as a comment on it. — C.S. Lewis

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C.S. Lewis

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends? — C.S. Lewis

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. — C.S. Lewis

Young men are supposed to think themselves immortal, but the subject is not very often out of my mind for a long time together. — C.S. Lewis

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop. — C.S. Lewis

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer. — C.S. Lewis

[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions. — C.S. Lewis

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. — C.S. Lewis

Little from you is really a bit too much — C.S. Lewis

Yes, of course you'll get back to Narnia again some day. Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. — C.S. Lewis

Jesus Christ was either a liar, a lunatic, or He was who He said He was — C.S. Lewis

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well. — C.S. Lewis

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. — C.S. Lewis

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. — C.S. Lewis

For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary ... — C.S. Lewis

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — C.S. Lewis

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. — C.S. Lewis

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C.S. Lewis

You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for sometime. — C.S. Lewis

Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such a ghastly age? — C.S. Lewis

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved. — C.S. Lewis

When you read great literature, you become a thousand men and yet still be yourself. — C.S. Lewis

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?'
- The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis

C'mon on down to the Whiff and Spit; snuff it up and cough it out, Lewis chanted, giving it a catchy rhythem. — L.J.Smith

If there was any idea that God had set us a sort of exam, and that we might get good marks by deserving them, that has to be wiped out. — C.S. Lewis

If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all. — C.S. Lewis

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. — C.S. Lewis

that is just why a vague religion - all about feeling God in nature, and so on - is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work: — C.S. Lewis

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? — C.S. Lewis

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. — C.S. Lewis

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets! — C.S. Lewis

The death of a beloved is an amputation. — C.S. Lewis

A girl should be so lost in God that a man has to seek Him to find her. — C.S. Lewis

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C.S. Lewis

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. — C.S. Lewis

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter. — C.S. Lewis

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. — C.S. Lewis

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. — C.S. Lewis

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. — C.S. Lewis

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred — C.S. Lewis

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — C.S. Lewis

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. — C.S. Lewis

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. — C.S. Lewis

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C.S. Lewis

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. — C.S. Lewis

I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading. — C.S. Lewis

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body. — C.S. Lewis

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY — Sheila Walsh

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. — C.S. Lewis

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. — C.S. Lewis

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. — C.S. Lewis

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. — C.S. Lewis

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness. — C.S. Lewis

The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. — C.S. Lewis

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. — C.S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. — C.S. Lewis

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world? — C.S. Lewis

If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones! — C.S. Lewis

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head. — C.S. Lewis

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling. — C.S. Lewis

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did. — C.S. Lewis

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development
— C.S. Lewis

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. — C.S. Lewis

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. — C.S. Lewis

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder. — C.S. Lewis

Eros, honoured without reservation and obeyed unconditionally, becomes a demon. — C.S. Lewis

But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used. — C.S. Lewis

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now — C.S. Lewis

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian. — C.S. Lewis

Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration. — C.S. Lewis

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle. — C.S. Lewis

The bolt of Tash falls from above!'
'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway? — C.S. Lewis

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is. — C.S. Lewis