--- title: "2 Reflections-on-the-psalms Quotes By C.S. Lewis" description: "2 Reflections-on-the-psalms quotes by C.S. Lewis. Plus more from C.S. Lewis and more Reflections-on-the-psalms sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/c-s-lewis-121_education_when-the-subject-is-sacred-proud-and-cle_306186.jpg" --- > [“When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/when-the-subject-is-sacred-proud-and-clever-men-may-come-to-think/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/c-s-lewis-121_education_when-the-subject-is-sacred-proud-and-cle_306186.jpg) > [“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/i-think-we-delight-to-praise-what-we-enjoy-because-the-praise-not/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/c-s-lewis-121_c-s-lewis_i-think-we-delight-to-praise-what-we-enj_1576753.jpg) ## More by C.S. Lewis > [“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/at-the-moment-then-of-man-s-victory-over-nature-we-find-the-whole/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) > [“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/isn-t-it-absolutely-essential-to-keep-a-fierce-left-and-a-fierce/) [C.S. 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