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The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure (C S Lewis Quotes)
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt (C S Lewis Quotes)
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? (C S Lewis Quotes)
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone (C S Lewis Quotes)
What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy’s ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these ‘smug’, commonplace neighbors at all (C S Lewis Quotes)
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less (C S Lewis Quotes)
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker (C S Lewis Quotes)
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death (C S Lewis Quotes)
That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it (C S Lewis Quotes)
His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say (C S Lewis Quotes)
No more I do, your Majesty. But what’s that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here (C S Lewis Quotes)
Puddleglum’s my name. But it doesn’t matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again (C S Lewis Quotes)
Yes, I know,’ interrupted Puddleglum. ‘And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn’t say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren’t you? (C S Lewis Quotes)
Child,’ said the Lion, ‘I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own (C S Lewis Quotes)
Please,’ she said, ‘You’re so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I’d rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else (C S Lewis Quotes)
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road (C S Lewis Quotes)
That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning (C S Lewis Quotes)
Jewel,’ he said, ‘what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy (C S Lewis Quotes)
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life (C S Lewis Quotes)
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do (C S Lewis Quotes)
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him (C S Lewis Quotes)
Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He’s been a brick (C S Lewis Quotes)
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience (C S Lewis Quotes)
Those who tread ‘adult’ as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up (C S Lewis Quotes)
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 Quotes)
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well (C S Lewis Quotes)
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again (C S Lewis Quotes)
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up (C S Lewis Quotes)
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. (‘How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!’) In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal (C S Lewis Quotes)
For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait (C S Lewis Quotes)