C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 52

• As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

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  Thinking, Doe, May

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• No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

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  Men, Cities, Together

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

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  Prayer, Mind, Sitting

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

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  Past, Rays, Frozen

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

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  Men, Beast

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

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  Mother, Wisdom, Children

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• Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.

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  Kings, Cutting, Mind

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.112, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

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  Ambition, Wish, Looks

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• No people find each other more absurd than lovers

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  People, Lovers, Absurd

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• I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

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  Happiness, Giving Up, Fall

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• A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

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  Men, Littles, Resistance

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

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  School, America, Should

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• A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

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  Truth, Lying, Myth

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• we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

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  Eye, Punishment, Lazarus

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.159, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

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  Real, Reading, Lust

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Running, Doubt, Narnia

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• My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

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  Eye, Enough, My Own

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

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  Reading, Two, Eating

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

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  Reality, Thinking, Feet

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

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  Religion, Trying, Succeed

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

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  Believe, Animal, Men

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• The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

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  Heart, Tears, Gone

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

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  Beautiful, Voice, Nephew

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

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  Reality, Makers, Great Divorce

  "The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

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• That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

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  Ideas, Narnia

  "If you didn't find Narnia in your own wardrobe". www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2005.

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