Has beens Quotes by C. S. Lewis

37 Has beens quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis brings his narrative flair to the subject of fame’s after‑effects. Across thirty‑seven reflections he intertwines mythic storytelling with moral insight, urging a look beyond fleeting accolades.

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The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

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I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

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For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

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If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

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Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

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We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

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Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has…

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Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

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It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any…

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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories…

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I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply…

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If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so…

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The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational…

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I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and…

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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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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird…

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Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent…

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The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in…

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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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The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors…

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Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has…

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All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled,…

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What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the…

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As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A…

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There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing…

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The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been…

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A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

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The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

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[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself,…

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A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the…

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We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given…

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Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it.…

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Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying…

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You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself…

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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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It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think…

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The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every…

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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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