C.S. Lewis Quotes II

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Letters of C.S. Lewis
 
I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but I just discovered this quote, and I love it. It describes perfectly one of the reasons why I love to read fiction.

"We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows."
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Jennifu said:
I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but I just discovered this quote, and I love it. It describes perfectly one of the reasons why I love to read fiction.
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I like that quote. Thanks for posting it. I'm more of a non-fiction reader, and it seems to me this quote applies to lots of things in addition to literature.
 
That is good. I'm also glad someone posted, this thread is kind of...dead.:(

The more "up to date" the book is, the sooner it will be dated.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.
 
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I am glad you all liked The Lion. A number of mothers, and still more, schoolmistresses, have decided that it is likely to frighten children, so it is not selling very well. But the real children like it, and I am astonished how some very young ones seem to understand it. I think it frightens some adults, but v. few children.

Letters of C.S. Lewis
 
Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between our feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly "Xmas" racket at its lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, "Oh Lor'! They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now!"

Letters to an American Lady
 
Affection, as distinct from charity, is not a cause of lasting happiness. Left to its natural bent affection becomes in the end greedy, naggingly solicitous, jealous, exacting, timorous.

The Sermon and the Lunch (God in the Dock)
 
Talking about a coma he revived from in July 1963:

"Tho' I am by no means unhappy I can't help feeling it was rather a pity I did revive in July. I mean, having been glided so painlessly up to the Gate is seems hard to have it shut in one's face and know that the whole process must some day be gone through again. . .Poor Lazarus!"

To another friend shortly before his death:

"When you die. . .look me up. . .It is all rather fun--solemn fun--isn't it."
 
"...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. The good dress is the one that will face that light. For that light will last longer."

The World's Last Night and Other Essays
 
"The quality which had enchanted me in the imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live."

--C. S. Lewis
 
"La mente humana es incapaz de inventar nuevos valores, ni siquiera un nuevo color primario" -C.S. Lewis

"The human mind is uncapable to create new values, not even a new primary color" -C. S. Lewis
 
"He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself." C.S. Lewis
 
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