Parenting Quotes by C.S. Lewis

“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of…

— C.S. Lewis

“In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.”

— C.S. Lewis

“How should man live save as glass To let the white light without flame, the Father, pass Unstained ...”

— C.S. Lewis

“My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin.”

— C.S. Lewis

“You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without…

— C.S. Lewis

“I perceived now that there is a love deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved. Would a father…

— C.S. Lewis

“He has also made the offspring dependent on the parents and given the parents an impulse to support it-thus producing the Family,…

— C.S. Lewis

“I do not believe God created an egalitarian world. I believe the authority of parent over child, husband over wife, learned over…

— C.S. Lewis

“Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother’s eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the…

— C.S. Lewis

“Hours later there came a change. It began to grow light in the bus. The greyness outside the windows turned from mud-colour…

— C.S. Lewis

“But please, please - won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?' Up till then he had been…

— C.S. Lewis

“If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then…

— C.S. Lewis

“The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and…

— C.S. Lewis

“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a…

— C.S. Lewis

“Your natural life is derived from your parents; that does not mean it will stay there if you do nothing about it.…

— C.S. Lewis

“Be winged. Be the father of all flying horses," roared Aslan in a voice that shook the ground. "Your name is Fledge."…

— C.S. Lewis

“He was very interested in everything that lay to the North because no one ever went that way and he was never…

— C.S. Lewis

“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected…

— C.S. Lewis

“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…

— C.S. Lewis

“The Happy Trinity is her home: nothing can trouble her joy. She is the bird that evades every net: the wild deer…

— C.S. Lewis

“Peter, Adam's Son," said Father Christmas. "Here, sir," said Peter. "These are your presents," was the answer, "and they are tools, not…

— C.S. Lewis

“Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him, and his attention is therefore chiefly turned…

— C.S. Lewis