C. S. Lewis
Irish novelist and poet
Lived from: 1898 - 1963
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 29 november 1898 Died: 22 november 1963
Quotes 61 till 80 of 134.
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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)― C. S. Lewis -
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
Letter (8 November 1952)― C. S. Lewis -
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
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It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
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It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16 : The Healing of H― C. S. Lewis -
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― C. S. Lewis -
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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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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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
The Problem of Pain (1940)― C. S. Lewis -
Many things - such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
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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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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
The Pilgrims Regress― C. S. Lewis -
Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 176― C. S. Lewis -
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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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
The Weight of Glory― C. S. Lewis
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