No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir. C. S. Lewis hurt heart son I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass. C. S. Lewis men father book Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. C. S. Lewis religious dream inspirational A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis plato christian lying It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. C. S. Lewis libertarian-party democracies-have government What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on. C. S. Lewis real fire writing Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not. C. S. Lewis enjoy suffering together Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His C. S. Lewis teacher son jesus What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before? C. S. Lewis destiny powerful men Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist. C. S. Lewis fighting strong mean If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable. C. S. Lewis redemption elements world Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried. C. S. Lewis religious inspirational country The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember? C. S. Lewis waves-breaking sea beach Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. C. S. Lewis narnia queens kings Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. C. S. Lewis grief wisdom talking The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received. C. S. Lewis done grace time I am in love and out of it I will not go. C. S. Lewis positive-marriage i-hate-you marriage History is a story written by the finger of God. C. S. Lewis fingers written stories A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. C. S. Lewis christian pregnancy lying The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. C. S. Lewis recent-past knowing past
