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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

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better. — C.S. Lewis

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible — C.S. Lewis

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

Some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do. — C.S. Lewis

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. — C.S. Lewis

He bawled up at the giant, 'Hi! You up there ... what's your name?'
Giant Rumblebuffin, if you please, your honor ... — 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

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

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis — Philip Zaleski

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C.S. Lewis

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

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. — 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

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C.S. Lewis

The only people who hate escapism are jailers. — C.S. Lewis

It was C. S. Lewis who said, "We need to be reminded more than instructed. — Brennan Manning

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. — C.S. Lewis

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. — C.S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. — C.S. Lewis

Bad laws make hard cases. — C.S. Lewis

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

Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth. — 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

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. — 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

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

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow. — C.S. Lewis

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. — 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

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. — C.S. Lewis

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. — C.S. Lewis

Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. To the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful. — C.S. Lewis

Little from you is really a bit too much — 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

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

Who are you?'
One who has waited long for you to speak. — C.S. Lewis

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are. — C.S. Lewis

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel. — C.S. Lewis

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. — C.S. Lewis

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C.S. Lewis

Take care. It is so easy to break eggs without making omelettes. — C.S. Lewis

It's so large"
"It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?"
"smaller — 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

When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House. — C.S. Lewis

Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good. — C.S. Lewis

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

How can we meet them face to face, till we have faces? — C.S. Lewis

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. — C.S. Lewis

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious, — C.S. Lewis

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. — 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

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. — 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

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

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun. — C.S. Lewis

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C.S. Lewis

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought. — 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 Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. — C.S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are. — 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

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

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. — C.S. Lewis

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? — C.S. Lewis

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

I was allowed to play at philosophy no longer. — C.S. Lewis

If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace. — 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

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. — C.S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth
the very thing the whole story has been about. — 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

Whenever all men are ... hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — C.S. Lewis

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. — C.S. Lewis

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. — C.S. Lewis

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration. — C.S. Lewis

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves. — C.S. Lewis

Can you lay your hand on your hearts and tell me I'm really alive? Are you sure I wasn't drowned and we're not all ghosts together? — C.S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither. — C.S. Lewis

But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow. — C.S. Lewis

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality. — C.S. Lewis

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. — C.S. Lewis

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

they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes. — C.S. Lewis

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

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. — C.S. Lewis

Brave is being scared and doing what needs to be done anyway — R.C. Lewis

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head! — 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

Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction. — C.S. Lewis

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God. — 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

He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things. — C.S. Lewis