C.S. Lewis Quotes II

thnx

Son of Adam said:
"When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong, they need your prayers all the more, and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."

Mere Christianity
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I came to this thread just after reading some pretty intense debating on the "I tried believing in God" topic in the Socratic Club section of this website. Reading this quote you posted seemed a refreshingly appropriate response to the flying words on that thread. Thank you so much!

Okay, so here is a quote that I got from the C.S.Lewis page of BrainyQuote.com... (wish I knew what book it came from though):
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." --C. S. Lewis
 
I can't believe that, in 7 pages, this one wasn't mentioned:

"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
 
And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And so for us it is the end of all stories, and we can most truly say they lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the begining of the real story. And all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: and now they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has ever read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. -C.S. Lewis The Last Battle.
 
I like this one....

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun risen: not only because I see it, but because by it , I see everything else

- C.S Lewis
 
That's a good one, Suelo. It is close in spirit to one of my favorite quotes from G.K. Chesterton (who was among Mr. Lewis' influences). In his book Orthodoxy, Chesterton said approximately these words:

"The reason why I have difficulty answering people who ask me what it is that convinces me Christianity is true, is because EVERYTHING convinces me that Christianity is true."
 
Greensawmill said:
Can anyone reference the above quote? Thanks in advance :)
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I found another reference to this quote in this thread, with "LB" listed below it, I'm assuming that would refer to The Last Battle but I sure don't remember the quote from that book. I need to go home and look through my marked up copy to see if it really is there.

I like this thread. Here's a Lewis quote I hadn't found here:

What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could 'be like gods'-- could set up on their own as if they had created themselves-- be their own masters-- invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside of God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come...the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

-Mere Christianity
 
I don't know if anyone has posted this yet or not, but our pastor quoted this Lewis quote on Sunday and it was hilarious: "When you look at ham and eggs with lust you have already commited breakfast in your heart." LOL. :p
 
"Yes, it is strange that anyone should dislike cats. But cats themselves are the worst offenders in this respect. They very seldom seem to like one another." :D
 
~Aravis~ said:
I don't know if anyone has posted this yet or not, but our pastor quoted this Lewis quote on Sunday and it was hilarious: "When you look at ham and eggs with lust you have already commited breakfast in your heart." LOL. :p
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I don't think anyone had posted that-- I read the entire thread recently and don't remember that one. I like it.

"I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside
-- The Problem of Pain
 
Son of Adam said:
"What do people mean when they say 'I am not afraid of God because he is good?' Have they never been to a dentist?"

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I like that one. Some people seem to think Christianity is only about good feelings.

Here's another but I'm not sure where its from:


If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis
 
When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest at all. When the first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
 
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