Ends Quotes by C. S. Lewis

30 Ends quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis often used final scenes to hint at larger truths. Thirty of his reflections here offer a mix of moral clarity and imaginative wonder at the close of narratives.

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We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

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The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

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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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The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends...

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Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their…

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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down…

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To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

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As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice…

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The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The…

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One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till…

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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that…

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Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every…

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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…

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Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a…

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Man has got to take charge of Man… Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has…

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better…

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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as…

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Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half…

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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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All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you…

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Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are…

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Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the…

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I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked…

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God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

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Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to…

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At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

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Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the…

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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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The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are…

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A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more…

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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…

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