CS Lewis Quotes
She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.
Have you no idea of progress, of development?""I have seen them both in an egg, " said Caspian. "We call it 'Going Bad' in Narnia
How well it was said, " answered the fisherman, "that swords can be kept off with shields but the Eye of Wisdom pierces through every defense!
Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.
My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
The best way to get through any challenge is to step back, look up at the sky, breathe deeply in and out, smile if you have to…then dive in.
No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.
It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.
Upon awakening you may find no need to speak nothing to sayand no one to convince.Your very presence will spread happiness wisdom and truthto all you may encounter...along the Way.
All that you areforever to Be, Is prior to...and just beyondInfinity.
The Glass has Shattered but the Cross Remains
Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.
God's being good does not somehow magically make all Christians good.
We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.
Sometimes the truth stares us in the face, but we just choose not to look.
Desire, problem solving, and communication are all signs of intelligence and awareness. My cat has these, so it's quite possible he has a soul too.
He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
That's all YOU know, ' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.
The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.
Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.
Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.
When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready.
...some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.
In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being “in love” while discounting the importance of loving. (206)
Daughter, " said the Hermit, "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck.
We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always....
That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.
People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.
When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.
Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.
We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.