The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. C. S. Lewis philosophical heaven religion Suspicion often creates what it suspects. C. S. Lewis screwtape-letters suspects suspicion To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends. C. S. Lewis rainbow privacy greek One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. C. S. Lewis giving-up taken christian You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. C. S. Lewis inspiration faith evil Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis valentines-day forgiveness love Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will. C. S. Lewis christian men life But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan. C. S. Lewis paws children It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. C. S. Lewis reading inspirational book And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life. C. S. Lewis humble silly two Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all. C. S. Lewis five-senses minorities memories Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis government war peace Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact. C. S. Lewis mistake talking men A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it. C. S. Lewis understanding knowing men Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. C. S. Lewis decision evil loss But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played. C. S. Lewis struggle home cards Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed. C. S. Lewis spiritual heaven blood At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.' C. S. Lewis ends blessed heaven In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love. C. S. Lewis voice silence heart No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. C. S. Lewis reading age book
