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Facts Quotes by C. S. Lewis

40 Facts quotes by C. S. Lewis

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The first fact in the history of Christendom mentions people who claim to have seen the Resurrection. Lewis writes that morality and love often jump beyond what facts can prove, and that God is described as a concrete reality rather than an abstract idea. He also points out that a society built on faith needs collective desire to truly want it.

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God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

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Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

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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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In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

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When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

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If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience…

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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the…

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We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other…

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...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and…

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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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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him…

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The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that…

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And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but,…

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But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

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Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always…

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Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from…

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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to…

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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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I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world…

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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete,…

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When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in…

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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to…

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Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe…

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But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

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Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the…

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Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

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In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they…

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Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant…

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We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret…

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The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality,…

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If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has…

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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want…

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That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time…

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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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I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely…

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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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And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm…

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These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea…

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

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

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

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

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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

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