C.S. Lewis and Beyond
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Extensive quotes from CS Lewis. If you see one that helps you, please RT it along! - **ALL QUOTES on this account are confirmed from his official work.**
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There is no sense in talking of ‘becoming better’ if better means simply ‘what we are becoming; - it is like congratulating yourself on reaching your destination and defining destination as ‘the place you have reached.’ -CS Lewis, Evil and God
The learned life then is, to some, a duty. -CS Lewis, Learning in War Time
God’s claim is infinite and inexorable. You can refuse it, or you can begin to try to grant it. There is no middle way. Yet in spite of this it is clear Christianity does not exclude any of the ordinary human activities. St. Paul tells people to get on with their jobs. He even…
…the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man
This is what Confucius meant when he said ‘With those who follow a different Way it is useless to take counsel’. This is why Aristotle said that only those who have been well brought up can usefully study ethics: to the corrupted man, the man who stands outside the Tao, the very…
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; The scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.…
If you don’t read good books, you will read bad ones. If you don’t go on thinking rationally, you will think irrationally. If you reject aesthetic satisfactions, you will fall into sensual satisfactions. -CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory
The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man
There is a difference between a real moral advance and a mere innovation. From the Confucian ‘Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you’ to the Christian ‘Do as you would be done by’ is a real advance. The morality of Nietzsche is a mere innovation. The first…
A man who has experienced love from within will deliberately go about to inspect it analytically from the outside and regard the results of this analysis as truer than his experience. The extreme limit of this self-binding is seen in those who, like the rest of us, have…
There have been too many “historical Jesuses - a liberal Jesus, a pneumatic Jesus, a Barthian Jesus, a Marxist Jesus. They are the cheap crop of each publisher’s list, like the new Napoleons and new Queen Victorias. It is not to such phantoms that I look for my faith and my…
We have been trying, like Lear, to have it both ways: to lay down our human prerogative and yet at the same time to retain it. It is impossible. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man
If you don’t read good books, you will read bad ones. -CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory
You will notice that most dogs cannot understand POINTING. You point to a bit of food on the floor; the dog, instead of looking at the floor, sniffs at your finger. Your finger is a finger to him, and that is all. His world is all fact and no meaning. And in a period when factual…
Believers in progress rightly note that in the world of machines the new model supersedes the old; from this they falsely infer a similar kind of supercession in such things as virtue and wisdom. -CS Lewis, Why I Am Not a Pacifist
Neither conversion nor enlistment in the army is really going to obliterate our human life. Christians and soldiers are still men… -CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory
…we are rational spirit obliged for ever to obey the absolute values of the Tao, or else we are mere nature to be kneaded and cut into new shapes for the pleasures of masters who must, by hypothesis, have no motive but their own ‘natural’ impulses. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of…
Women sometimes have the problem of trying to judge by artificial light how a dress will look by daylight. That is very like the problem of all of us: to dress our souls not for the electric lights of the present world but for the daylight of the next. -CS Lewis, The World’s Last…
In the first week of the holidays we might acknowledge that term would come again—as a young man in peace-time, in full health, acknowledges that he will one day die. But like him we could not even by the grimmest memento mori be brought to realise it. And there too, each time,…
When they had sat down she said: “Such a horrible idea has come into my head, Su.” “What’s that?” “Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men, so that you’d never know which were…
I can assure you that in whatever hospital, inn of court, diocese, school, business, or college you arrive after going down, you will find the Rings - what Tolstoi calls the second or unwritten systems. -CS Lewis, The Inner Ring
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