C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

Extensive quotes from CS Lewis. If you see one that helps you, please RT it along! - **ALL QUOTES on this account are confirmed from his official work.** Joined January 2022

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

3 days ago

People are often worried. They are told they ought to love God. They cannot find any such feelings in themselves. What are they to do? The answer is the same as before. Act as if you did. Do not sit trying to manufacture feelings. Ask yourself, “If I were sure that I loved God,…

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Later, when we have gone to our bunks, it begins to blow. It is a rough night and my brother is sea-sick. I absurdly envy him this accomplishment. He is behaving as experienced travellers should. By great efforts I succeed in vomiting; but it is a poor affair—I was, and am, an…

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Let us consider three typical examples: the aeroplane, the wireless, and the contraceptive. In a civilized community, in peace-time, anyone who can pay for them may use these things. But it cannot strictly be said that when he does so he is exercising his own proper or…

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Let us suppose that an Innovator in values regards dulce et decorum and greater love hath no man as mere irrational sentiments which are to be stripped off in order that we may get down to the ‘realistic’ or ‘basic’ ground of this value. Where will he find such a ground? -CS…

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Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning. -CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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I think that looking for a “point” in that sense may prevent one sometimes from getting the real effect of the story in itself - like listening too hard for the words in singing which isn’t meant to be listened to that way. -CS Lewis, Letters

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My own experience as a teacher tells an opposite tale. For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to…

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4 days ago

The physical sciences, no less than theology, propose for our belief much that cannot be imagined. -CS Lewis, The World’s Last Night

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No Englishman will be able to understand my first impressions of England. When we disembarked, I suppose at about six next morning (but it seemed to be midnight), I found myself in a world to which I reacted with immediate hatred. -CS Lewis, Surprised by Joy

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What we call Man’s power is, in reality, a power possessed by some men which they may, or may not, allow other men to profit by. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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4 days ago

Traditional or (as they would say) ‘sentimental’ values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process -CS Lewis, The Way

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There are two men to whom we offer in vain a false leading article on patriotism and honour: one is the coward, the other is the honourable and patriotic man. -CS Lewis, Men Without Chests

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4 days ago

A cleft has opened in the pitiless wales of the world, and we are invited to follow our great Captain inside. The following Him is, of course, the essential point. -CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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4 days ago

Of course what matters in books is not so much the ideas as how you actually carry them out. -CS Lewis, Letters

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4 days ago

Ain't that the truth. Simultaneously 5, 21, and 700+.

C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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Ain't that the truth. Simultaneously 5, 21, and 700+.

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Their scepticism about values is on the surface: it is for use on other people’s values; about the values current in their own set they are not nearly sceptical enough. And this phenomenon is very usual. -CS Lewis, The Way

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4 days ago

He will have no notion that there are two ways of being immune to such an advertisement—that it falls equally flat on those who are above it and those who are below it; on the man of real sensibility and on the mere trousered ape who has never been able to conceive the Atlantic…

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In the light of our present specialised and depraved appetites, we cannot imagine this *torrens voluptatis,* [violent torrent -Editor] and I warn everyone most seriously not to try. -CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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You see, I don’t think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12. -CS Lewis, Letters

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God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better, but like turning a horse into a winged creature. -CS Lewis, Mere Christianity