Top & Most Famous C. S. Lewis Quotes
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal."
"We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
"It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork."
"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."
"Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling…"
"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."
"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."
"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
"If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake."
"The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing."
"A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save."
"If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed."
"The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal."
"Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood."
"You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either."
"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books."
"Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people."
"For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition."
"Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life."
"We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment."
"The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting."
"The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other…"
"But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes."
"How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?"
"I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose."
"We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed."
"A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself."
"I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books."
"It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell."
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives."
"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature."
"Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist."
"Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend."
"Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like."
"If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not."
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