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 81 till 100 of 134.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
Mere Christianity (1952)― C. S. Lewis -
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis― C. S. Lewis -
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
Mere Christianity (1952)― C. S. Lewis -
One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Christian Apologetics (1945)― C. S. Lewis -
Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
A Preface to Paradise Lost (1941)― C. S. Lewis -
Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)― C. S. Lewis -
Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwards to Euphuia...
The Pilgrims Regress (1933)― C. S. Lewis -
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)― C. S. Lewis -
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer― C. S. Lewis -
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
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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 -
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
The Worlds Last Night (1952)― C. S. Lewis -
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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