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![An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/761/760887/760887.webp "An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald] Picture Quote #1")
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I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand (C S Lewis Quotes)
Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature (C S Lewis Quotes)
I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact (C S Lewis Quotes)
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love (C S Lewis Quotes)
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves (C S Lewis Quotes)
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts (C S Lewis Quotes)
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process (C S Lewis Quotes)
The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember? (C S Lewis Quotes)
Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn’t have guessed. That’s one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It’s a religion you couldn’t have guessed (C S Lewis Quotes)
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed (C S Lewis Quotes)
We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him (C S Lewis Quotes)
But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder (C S Lewis Quotes)
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read ‘in the same spirit that the author writ.’... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison (C S Lewis Quotes)
At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities (C S Lewis Quotes)
Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy’s) you don’t realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary (C S Lewis Quotes)
Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments) (C S Lewis Quotes)
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, ‘sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends (C S Lewis Quotes)
Periods’ are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme (C S Lewis Quotes)
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can’t avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.’s lover. Now it’s like an empty house (C S Lewis Quotes)
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire? (C S Lewis Quotes)
You must ask for God’s help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again (C S Lewis Quotes)
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald] (C S Lewis Quotes)
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one! (C S Lewis Quotes)
Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see (C S Lewis Quotes)
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God (C S Lewis Quotes)
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do (C S Lewis Quotes)
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature (C S Lewis Quotes)
Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains (C S Lewis Quotes)
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan (C S Lewis Quotes)
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it (C S Lewis Quotes)