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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Irish novelist and poet

Lived from: 1898 - 1963

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 29 november 1898 Died: 22 november 1963

  • Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
  • God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
  • What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
  • There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."
  • The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
  • There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ''Thy will be done,'' and those to whom God says, ''All right, then, have it your way.''
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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  • In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
    The Abolition of Man (1943)
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  • Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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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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  • The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
    Surprised by Joy (1955)
    ― C. S. Lewis
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  • What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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