February 2012
11 posts
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“Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that’s all the life we have...”
– Till We Have Faces (1956)
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“God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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“We must go on to recognize the real Giver. It is madness not to. Because, if we...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“Love is the great conqueror of lust. Being in love is far better than either...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“The real trouble is that ‘kindness’ is a quality fatally easy to...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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“I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so...”
– Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
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“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth, but imagination is the organ of...”
– Rehabilitations (1939)
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“All loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that [Hell] contains, if...”
– The Great Divorce (1945)
January 2012
14 posts
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“Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to...”
– The Screwtape Letters (1942)
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“You need not mourn over Narnia, Lucy. All of the old Narnia that mattered, all...”
– The Last Battle (1956)
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“Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours....”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose...”
– Learning in War-Time (1939)
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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“‘How can they choose [hell]?’
‘Milton was right,’ said...”
– The Great Divorce (1945)
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“[God] makes each soul unique. If He had no use for all these differences, I do...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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“The Incarnation… illuminates and orders all other phenomena, explains both...”
– Miracles (1960)
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“Why anything [came] to be [here] at all, and whether there is anything behind...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“We know that we can act and that our actions produce results. Everyone who...”
– Work and Prayer (1945)
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“Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong,...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has...”
– The Four Loves (1960)
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“As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others...”
– The Four Loves (1960)
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“I think that every prayer which is sincerely made even to a false god or to a...”
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1952)
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“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not...”
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1949)
December 2011
22 posts
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“A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid...”
– Miracles (1947)
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“The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient...”
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1939)
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“Symbols are the natural speech of the soul, a language older and more universal...”
– Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1954)
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“He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down...”
– Miracles (1947)
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“There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where...”
– Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
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“Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the...”
– The Weight of Glory (1941)
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“We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with...”
– An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
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“‘Creation’ as applied to human authorship seems to me to be an...”
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1943)
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“Nature means to us whatever we please as the moods select and slur. But...”
– Miracles (1947)
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“In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we...”
– Miracles (1947)
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“We do not merely want to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty...”
– The Weight of Glory (1941)
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“If [Christianity] offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“Divine reality is like a fugue. All [God’s] acts are different, but they...”
– Miracles (1942)
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“To explain even an atom Schrödinger wants seven dimensions: and give us new...”
– Miracles (1942)
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“In Heaven there will be no anguish and no duty of turning away from our earthly...”
– The Four Loves (1960)
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“A vague religion – all about feeling God in nature, and so on – is so...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants...”
– Man or Rabbit?, God in the Dock (1946)
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“It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been...”
– Letters to an American Lady (1962)
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“You needn’t worry about not feeling brave. Our Lord didn’t – see the...”
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1953)
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“Do not let us deceive ourselves. No possible complexity which we can give to our...”
– Dogma and the Universe (1943)
November 2011
28 posts
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“Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
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Happy birthday, C.S. Lewis!
He would have been 113 years old today. (Born November 29, 1898.)
This blog is dedicated to quotes by Lewis, but in honor of his birthday, I think this quote about Lewis is fairly appropriate:
“You’ll never get to the bottom of him.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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“Our whole being by its very nature is one vast need; incomplete, preparatory,...”
– The Four Loves (1960)