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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
"What a curious name!"
"Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
— 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
- 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 cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
— 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
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
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
— Sheila Walsh
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 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
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
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
— 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
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
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