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Famous C. S. Lewis Quotes
“Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.”
“People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.”
“To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.”
“Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.”
“You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.”
“If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.”
“The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.”
“Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.”
“An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.”
“Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.”
“No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.”
“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”
“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.”
“The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.”
“Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.”
“The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.”
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
“Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.”
“Human intellect is incurably abstract.”
“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.”
“So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.”
“If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.”
“Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.”
“The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.”
“The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.”
