C.S. Lewis Quotes II

This one made me laugh myself silly and then sober up and think:

"I have looked up this girl's dossier and am horrofied by what I find. Not only a Christain but such a Christain - a vile, sneaking, simpering, demure, monosylabic, mouselike, watery, insignificant, virginal, bread-and-butter miss!The little brute! She makes me vomit. She stinks and scalds through the very pages of the dossier. It drives me mad, the way the world has worsened. [...] A two-faced, little cheat, (I know the sort) who looks as if she'd faint at the sight of blood, and then dies with a smile on her face. A cheat every way. Looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, and yet has a satirical wit. The sort of creature who would find ME funny! Filthy, insipid, little prude -"

~The Screwtape Letters
 
RF that is a great one! :) Have you read through the whole book?

Another excellent and witty one from Screwtape:

"All that, your patient would probably classify as 'Puritanism'-and may I remark in passing that the value we have given to that word is one of the really solid triumphs of the last hundred years? By it we rescue annually thousands of humans from temperence, chastity, and sobriety of life."​
 
Charn_Tim said:
RF that is a great one! :) Have you read through the whole book?
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Yeah, it was funny, the Sunday after I finished the book my Sunday School teacher said "We're starting Screwtape Letters today." :D

Another one from Screwtape:

"He [the Patient] sees as well as you do that courage is not just one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the highest point of reality. A chastity, or honesty, or mercy wich yields to danger will be chaste, or honest, or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful, until it became risky."
 
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that "in the beginning God made Heaven and Earth."
[SIZE=-1]C S LEWIS (Miracles)[/SIZE][/FONT]
 
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
- C.S. Lewis
 
"Make your choice, adventurous stranger, strike the bell and bide the danger, or wonder 'till it drives you mad, what would have happened if you had."

The Magician's Nephew
 
^I love that line from MN! One of my favorites from the whole series.:)

Here's another good one(Geez, I can't find one bad quote from this man, they're all very true:p):

"I am not angry-except perhaps for a moment before I come to my senses-with a man who trips me up by accident; I am angry with a man who tries to trip me up even if he does not succeed." -Mere Christianity
 
wonderful stuff, Lucy :) (is there a bad quote or section in MC after all? ;) )

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin."
--The Problem of Pain
 
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Mere Christianity
 
Here is the quote that always reminds me I am rotten creature without Jesus, the Aslan of my life:

"Apparently the rats of resentment and vindictiveness are always there in the cellar of my soul." - Mere Christianity. (Ouch)
 
"What do people mean when they say 'I am not afraid of God because he is good?' Have they never been to a dentist?"

A Grief Observed
 
"Never forget that we are all still the early Christians. The present wicked and wasteful divisions between us are, let us hope, a disease of infancy; we are still teething."

Mere Christianity
 
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time
to feed on it.

-- C. S. Lewis
 
Great one^ :)

"Remember we Christians think man lives fovever. 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 hellish creature."
--Mere Christianity

This has been the best way for me to think about the process of sanctification.
 
"Storge has a very homely face; much the same as many of those for whom we feel it.

The Four Loves
 
"The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour." The Abolition of Man
 
Thats a great one, Lucy! ;) Is that from MC?

This is one of my all time favourites by any author:

"In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England...The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance to escape?"
--Surprised By Joy
 
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