CS Lewis Quotes
...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.
Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.
Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.
We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.
foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abandon.
And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt.
Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.
The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life?
It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.
Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.
Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.
... You must always remember... Whatever their bodies do affects their souls.
He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.
He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.
As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.
Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.
. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.
The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, ' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, " Amos liked to say. "Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.
I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.
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
The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian, " Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.
Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.
Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.
Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.
Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.
Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...
J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.
Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.
It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this. I can't.
Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).
Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.
Black is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.
