Real Quotes by C. S. Lewis

51 Real quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s 51 passages span myth, philosophy, and everyday wonder, each probing the layers of what we call real. His voice balances imagination with keen insight, offering a deep well of contemplation.

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More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

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So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

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Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

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Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

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“Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'.”

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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

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The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of…

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We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far…

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All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the…

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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 am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults…

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)…

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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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But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking…

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The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will…

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The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it…

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What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,…

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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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If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a…

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We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the…

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Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will…

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Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered…

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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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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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Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some…

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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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Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the…

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All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure…

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We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

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Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not…

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The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I…

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A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will…

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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if…

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Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same…

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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 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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