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Time Quotes by C. S. Lewis

78 Time quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis describes humans as half spirit, half animal, living between eternal and temporal worlds. He notes that everyday objects bear witness to the flow of time. He also suggests coping with unhappy times one hour at a time, like treating illness.

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The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

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Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

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To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

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A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

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The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

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We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

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No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

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

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Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I…

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I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might…

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If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

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From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God…

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Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition,…

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit…

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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the…

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Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest…

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Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you…

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The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And…

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Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something…

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The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment…

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God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ...…

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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very…

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And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities…

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I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a…

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“But Ransom, as time wore on, became aware of another and more spiritual cause for his progressive lightening and exultation of heart.…

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You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

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To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

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Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

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If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

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The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

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Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to…

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Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much…

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It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be…

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The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

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Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...

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Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs…

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