C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 58

• In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

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  Uncles, Taken, People

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia 7-in-1 Bundle with Bonus Book, Boxen”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

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• In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

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  Song, Thinking, Light

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• you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

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  Made

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

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  Land, Atmosphere, Promise

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• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

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  Screwtape Letters, Pretending, Turns

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

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  Law, Nails, Morality

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

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  Cutting, Law, Humanity

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

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  Religious, Insanity, Knows

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.173, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

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  Games, Sin, Solemn

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.78, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

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  Matter, Natural, Inferiors

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.71, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

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  Fighting, Men, Style

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• If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

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  Wise, Wisdom, Earth

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

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  People, Shame, Frankness

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• Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

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  God, Scripture, Ethical

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• You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

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  Laughter, Roaring, Study

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

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  Littles, Little Things, Hardest

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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• An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

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  Feelings, Obligation, Feels

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

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  Christian, Religious, Art

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• Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

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  Pain, Wake Up, World

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• Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

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  Suffering, Together, Enjoy

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

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  Children, Nephew, Way

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew”, p.136, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

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  Men, Trying, Done

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• When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

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  Dream, Memories, Real

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.130, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and tied up." "Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!" cheeped the Mouse. "Draw and fight or I'll beat you black and blue with the flat." "I haven't got one," said Eustace. "I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting." "Do I understand," said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, "that you do not intend to give me satisfaction?

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  Believe, Fighting, Blue

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

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  Eye, Dark, Light

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