There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books. C. S. Lewis windlongbook As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. C. S. Lewis eyereadingthinking If there is equality it is in His love, not in us. C. S. Lewis his-loveifs Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis lonelinesschristianrunning Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver. C. S. Lewis giverlawmen Freedom always comes with a price. C. S. Lewis Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited. C. S. Lewis formspiritualthinking But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God. C. S. Lewis pridemenmean There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. C. S. Lewis wastejoyhappiness We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence. C. S. Lewis forgivingbrotherneeds A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery. C. S. Lewis slaverybeliefideas In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations. C. S. Lewis machinesrunningreality Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality. C. S. Lewis unityhumilitypersonality I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us. C. S. Lewis cheerfulinsecurityfeelings Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride. C. S. Lewis pridetemptationlong Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see. C. S. Lewis realmeanthinking A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. C. S. Lewis wisetimemen To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. C. S. Lewis religiousattentionreligion "Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior C. S. Lewis selfishconceitedhumble The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil. C. S. Lewis politicalworshipevil
