C.S. Lewis Quotes II

"We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it were very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment."

An Experiment in Criticism
 
"Storge has a very homely face; much the same as many of those for whom we feel it."

The Four Loves
 
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
 
"Hell is the only place outside of heaven where we can be safe from the dangers of love."

The Four Loves
 
"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."

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
 
No one ever influenced Tolkien-you might as well try to influence a bander-snatch. We listened to his work, but could affect it only by encouragement. He has only two reactions to criticism; either he begins the whole work over again from the beginning or else takes no notice at all. ~C.S. Lewis
 
"I said glibly a moment ago that I would 'pay any price' to remove this doctrine [of Hell]. I lied. I could not pay one-thousandth part of the price that God has already paid to remove the -fact-."

The Problem of Pain
 
Like a good chess player he [Satan] is always trying to manoeuvre you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop. ~C.S Lewis
 
"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."

The Weight of Glory
 
"A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed."

The Problem of Pain
 
"Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

Till We Have Faces
 
^^I like that one^^:)

There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. ~C.S. Lewis
 
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