Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. C. S. Lewis expenditures charitable should There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned. C. S. Lewis acquaintance seems If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. C. S. Lewis action men thinking That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia. C. S. Lewis narnia ideas It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. C. S. Lewis literature prayer inspirational As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms. C. S. Lewis doe may thinking Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through. C. S. Lewis valleys green looks There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit. C. S. Lewis limits soul suffering A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. C. S. Lewis nephew voice beautiful The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual. C. S. Lewis inability humility forget and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed. C. S. Lewis serious-things truthful lying There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. C. S. Lewis gnats ordinary people Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. C. S. Lewis silliness kind children What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. C. S. Lewis play writing memories Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. C. S. Lewis sight winter spring That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality. C. S. Lewis great-divorce makers reality It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual. C. S. Lewis homosexual serious theory All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. Lewis childishness eternity wisdom You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. C. S. Lewis god feelings night God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. C. S. Lewis pain-and-pleasure pleasure pain
