C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 81

• Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

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  Class, Facts, Impossible

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

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  Messages, Realizing, Christianity

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• When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

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  Secret, Listening, Church

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

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  Simple, Extinction, Achieve

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

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  Real, Humorous, Men

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• 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.

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  Reality, Events, Definitions

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• Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

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  Christian, Men, Differences

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• Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

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  Journey, Needs, Use

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

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  Night, Men, Feet

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.106, HarperCollins UK

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• Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

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  Enemy, Territory, World

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

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  Real, Reality, Risk

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• On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

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  Party, Views, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

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  People, Want, Ought

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• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

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  Love, Weed, Cutting

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• The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

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  Differences, Helping, Given

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools." -The Profesor

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  Kings, School, Adventure

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• That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

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  Girl, Dwarves, Maps

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• Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

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  Years, House, Stories

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

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• And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

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  Cutting, Two, Coward

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• Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

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  Dwarves, Criminals, Said

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.24, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

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  Garden, Castles, Said

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• I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee.

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  Giants, Use, Mets

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• At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

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  Two, Rabbits, Three

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

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  Fire, Flames, Tiny

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• Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

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  Lasts, Wonder, Poor

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.161, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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