The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning. C. S. Lewis christian men people At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in. C. S. Lewis doors morning world The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. C. S. Lewis together inspirational laughing It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls. C. S. Lewis puppets giving-up soul Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. C. S. Lewis grows mercy justice It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father. C. S. Lewis moments desire father Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. C. S. Lewis grief-observed bereavement universal I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions. C. S. Lewis mixtures real justice That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. C. S. Lewis self giving reality Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. C. S. Lewis essence prayer wise I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk. C. S. Lewis men long mean Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid. But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry that the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is anyway possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere he can be cured and made human again. C. S. Lewis hate sorry men We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all." C. S. Lewis attitude father people Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see. C. S. Lewis glory desire I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true. C. S. Lewis god ideas thinking I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers. C. S. Lewis simple class men God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. C. S. Lewis goodness divine I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't. C. S. Lewis odd unhappy world We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end. C. S. Lewis treats ends dog The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. C. S. Lewis psalms worship-music delight
