When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time. C. S. Lewis cuttinggriefloss Love, having become a god, becomes a demon. C. S. Lewis demon If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis ifsmadeworld A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems. C. S. Lewis realdesirebelieve Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. C. S. Lewis miraclelawfacts What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week. C. S. Lewis afternoonnext-weekbook Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice. C. S. Lewis advicegivingthinking Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. C. S. Lewis new-booksreadingbook There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. C. S. Lewis inspirationallooksreligion There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. C. S. Lewis carechristianitymen Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying. C. S. Lewis realjourneyair If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees. C. S. Lewis should-haverunningwind Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. C. S. Lewis brokenheartanimal until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing. C. S. Lewis ordinarypeopleway You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. C. S. Lewis lionscallingreligion The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other... C. S. Lewis sightbeautifulideas It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. C. S. Lewis uselessdoorsheaven I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. C. S. Lewis narniasideslove I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us. C. S. Lewis sickrealthinking Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis christian-inspirationalgodlymotivational
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