C. S. Lewis Quotes

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C. S. Lewis Quotes

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Curious

“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.”

Life Reality Animal

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Love

“We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.”

Nature Want Something Nymphs

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Grateful

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

Men Book Reading

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Love

“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”

Soul Love Is

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Grateful

“We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

People Kind

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Nostalgic

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

Children Growing Up Fear

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Hopeful

“We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.”

Long Events Sunrise

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Philosophical

“Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.”

Trying Christian Philosopher

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Grateful

“The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible”

Made Praise Crank

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Peaceful

“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.”

Children Doors Special

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Wise

“There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.”

Soul Suffering Limits

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Philosophical

“Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.”

Christian Strong Drinking

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