C. S. Lewis Quotes — Page 28

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.”

Thinking Men Silly

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Wise

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.”

People Inspirational Excuse

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Angry

“Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.”

Complaining Blame

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Hopeful

“In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.”

Enjoy Glorify

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Happy

“The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.”

Joy Common Nonsense

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Courageous

“Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.”

Mistake Sleep Tyrants

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Grieving

“Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”

Universal Bereavement

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Love

“To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.”

Should Love You

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Hopeful

“You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself”

Littles Palaces Cottages

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Spiritual

“If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.”

Way Trying Gleam

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Grieving

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.”

Wisdom Grief Yawning

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Philosophical

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”

Believe Strong Life And Death

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