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Out Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
- We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
- We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself.…
- If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned…
- The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the…
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this…
- Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
- Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of…
- The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization…
- You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to…
- There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of…
- For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and…
- You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
- I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
- You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out…
- Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
- We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
- The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will…
- Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date…
- The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
- If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If…
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