C. S. Lewis Quotes — Page 29

Writer, Scholar

Grateful

“What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.”

Book Afternoon Next Week

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Regretful

“[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.”

Thinking Men Faith

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Philosophical

“Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”

Wonder Consciousness

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Hopeful

“Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.”

Long Joy

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Spiritual

“God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.”

Thinking Kind Drama

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Nostalgic

“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”

Book Long Wind

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Philosophical

“All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.”

Self Choices

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Hopeful

“It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.”

Wonderful Can Do

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Spiritual

“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.”

Country Desire Alive

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Optimistic

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

Inspirational Life Funny

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Grateful

“One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.”

Giving Needs May

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Nostalgic

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”

Thinking Country Home

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