And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human? C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. C. S. Lewis christian doe writing A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. C. S. Lewis atheism men ideas When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them. C. S. Lewis mere christian love No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me. C. S. Lewis yawning grief fear The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. C. S. Lewis states giving needs We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. C. S. Lewis honor laughing men Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood. C. S. Lewis dark water blood Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier. C. S. Lewis heart morning memories Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. C. S. Lewis passion strong wisdom I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop. C. S. Lewis grief suffering writing The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded. C. S. Lewis enjoy forever lost If education is beaten by training, civilization dies. C. S. Lewis beaten training civilization Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer. C. S. Lewis real faith god If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. C. S. Lewis hell able heaven Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. C. S. Lewis choices judging action When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift? C. S. Lewis golden fool praying The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. C. S. Lewis myth rich veils Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. C. S. Lewis lions stories children Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. C. S. Lewis becoming each-day inspirational The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen. C. S. Lewis great-divorce mad helping
