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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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  • If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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  • Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that this present might be the world's last night; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
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  • Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
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  • It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
    C.S. Lewis on joy
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  • The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question What if this present were the world's last night? is equally relevant.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    ― C. S. Lewis
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