C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 27

• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

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  Home, Mean, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

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  Pain, Self, Perfect

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• There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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  Happiness, Joy, Waste

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

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  Men, Energy, World

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

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  Christian, Thinking, Hints

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

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  Fun, Thinking, People

  "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis, Book I, Chapter 5, ("We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"), 1952.

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• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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  Grief, Healing, Grieving

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

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  Imagination, Causes, Reason

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.265, Cambridge University Press

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• It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

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  Libertarian Party, Democracies Have, Government

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Christianity is a fighting religion.

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  Fighting, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

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  Heart, Mediocrity, Break

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• I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

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  Country, Real, Home

  "The Last Battle " by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1956.

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• It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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  Religion, Dirt

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

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  Believe, Needs, Want

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.288, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

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  Atheist, Night, England

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

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  Wisdom, Philosophy, Goes On

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

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  Inspirational, Our World, Bigger

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• Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

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  Book, Play, Skills

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.98, HarperCollins UK

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• The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

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  Education, Intelligent, Would Be

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• Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

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  Justice, Mercy, Grows

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.326, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

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  Christian, Light, Fog

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

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  Gun

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• Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

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  Giving Up, Real, Self

  BBC Radio Talk: "Beyond Personality -- Mere Men", Broadcast 21 March 1944, BBC Home Service Radio

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• Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

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  Angel, Imagine

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• Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

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  Evil, Catholic, Way

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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