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They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace.
"What a curious name!"
"Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly. — C.S. Lewis
"What a curious name!"
"Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly. — C.S. Lewis
How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible
— C.S. Lewis
Some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.
— C.S. Lewis
Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
— C.S. Lewis
He bawled up at the giant, 'Hi! You up there ... what's your name?'
Giant Rumblebuffin, if you please, your honor ... — C.S. Lewis
Giant Rumblebuffin, if you please, your honor ... — C.S. Lewis
For a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.
— C.S. Lewis
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
— C.S. Lewis
We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis
— Philip Zaleski
The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
— C.S. Lewis
I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were really people like you. Yet there you are.
— C.S. Lewis
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
— C.S. Lewis
The only people who hate escapism are jailers.
— C.S. Lewis
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
— C.S. Lewis
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
— C.S. Lewis
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
— C.S. Lewis
Bad laws make hard cases.
— C.S. Lewis
Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.
— C.S. Lewis
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.
— C.S. Lewis
The miracle of the Resurrection, and the theology of that miracle, comes first: the biography comes later as a comment on it.
— C.S. Lewis
[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions.
— C.S. Lewis
And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.
— C.S. Lewis
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
— C.S. Lewis
Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. To the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful.
— C.S. Lewis
Little from you is really a bit too much
— C.S. Lewis
Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.
— C.S. Lewis
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
— C.S. Lewis
You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.
— C.S. Lewis
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
— C.S. Lewis
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
— C.S. Lewis
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
— C.S. Lewis
When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.
— C.S. Lewis
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.
— C.S. Lewis
One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
— C.S. Lewis
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
— C.S. Lewis
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
— C.S. Lewis
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
— C.S. Lewis
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
— C.S. Lewis
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
— C.S. Lewis
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
— C.S. Lewis
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
— C.S. Lewis
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
— C.S. Lewis
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
— C.S. Lewis
I was allowed to play at philosophy no longer.
— C.S. Lewis
The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment.
— C.S. Lewis
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
— C.S. Lewis
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth
the very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis
the very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
— C.S. Lewis
Whenever all men are ... hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
— C.S. Lewis
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.
— C.S. Lewis
Can you lay your hand on your hearts and tell me I'm really alive? Are you sure I wasn't drowned and we're not all ghosts together?
— C.S. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
— C.S. Lewis
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
— Sheila Walsh
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
— C.S. Lewis
Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
— C.S. Lewis
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
— C.S. Lewis
they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.
— C.S. Lewis
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
— C.S. Lewis
Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.
— C.S. Lewis
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
— C.S. Lewis
Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
— C.S. Lewis
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
— C.S. Lewis