C.S. Lewis Quotes II

A somewhat frank and honest one:

"I have no answer to my problem [of the paradox of petitionary prayer], though I have taken it to about every Christian I know, learned or simple, lay or clerical, within my own Communion or without."

From the essay "Petitionary Prayer: A Problem without an answer" in Chrisitian Reflections.
 
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

(I'm sure he's got both now, if he really wants them!)
 
great quotes^

I have always loved this one:

"The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next...Aim at heaven and you will get the earth thrown in. Aim at the earth and you will get neither."

--Mere Christianity
 
"It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hearafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbour's glory should be laid on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken."

Weight of Glory
 
I was going to do that one next!!^ I love that one-it comes right before the quote in my sig.

"Of [the gospel of John] there are only 2 possible views. Either this is reportage pretty close to the facts...Or else some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors of successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative...The reader who doesn't see this has simply not learned to read." ( :) )

--"Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism", from Christian Reflections
 
Christianity, if false is of no importance and if true of the utmost importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
 
"I have a notion that what may seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling and contend with the greatest disinclination."

--Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
 
"It will not bother me in the hour of death that I have been 'had for a sucker' by any number of imposters; but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need."
 
"If God is satisfied with the work, then the work can be satisfied with itself."
--The Weight of Glory
 
Charn_Tim said:
"If God is satisfied with the work, then the work can be satisfied with itself."
--The Weight of Glory
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Good one.:)

"Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing....It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. . .But, of course, ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense-love as distinct from 'bring in love'-is not merely a feeling."
-Mere Christianity
 
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this...Aim at heaven and you get the earth 'thrown in.' Aim at the earth and you get nothing"

--Mere Christianity

Lucy the Marshwiggle said:
Good one.:)
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Thanks, it's was pretty freeing and encouraging when I actually realized that was true

Yours was great too!
 
"It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion."

Mere Christianity
 
(Awesome! You're reading section 1 of MC :) )

"I fear the practical problems which will arise if ever we meet rational creatures which are not human. Against them we shall if we can, commit all the crimes we have already committed against creatures certainly human but differing from us in features and pigmentation; and the starry heavens will become an object to which good men can look up only with feelings of intolerable guilt, agonized pity, and burning shame."
--"Religion and Rocketry", from The World's Last Night

(Let's pray this is not prophetic. c.f. Out of the Silent Planet)
 
"The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and pertubations of love is Hell."
 
Here's a good one.

"Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson." :)p) Mere Christianity
 
"The Future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

The Screwtape Letters
 
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness"
--The Problem of Pain


Lucy the Marshwiggle said:
Here's a good one.

"Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson." :)p) Mere Christianity
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yep, I love that one :) he's so clever and truthful!
 
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