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“I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Atheist #Creating #Religion
“You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Morning #Past #Thinking
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
-- C. S. Lewis

#God #Men #Ideas
“A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Beach #Kings #Fire
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Each Day #Becoming #Horror
“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Dream #Stronger #Idiotic
“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Dream #Morning #Holiday
“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Wisdom #Giving #Forever
“The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Men #Self #Glimpse
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#God #Religion #World
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Wisdom #Taken #Men
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Men #Laughing #Honor
“We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Brother #Forgiving #Needs
“If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Believe #Men #Giving
“What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Christian #Book #Want
“Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Player #Trying #Castles
“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Differences #Religion #Making A Difference
“The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Mean #Heart #Acceptance
“Things never happen the same way twice.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Way #Narnia
“The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Christian #Men #People
“Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Enemy #Looks #Causes
“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Goodbye #Book #Night
“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Sweet #Thinking #Lakes
“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Decision #Religion #Way
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Taken #Mind #Belief
“At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Morning #Doors #World
“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Men #Errors #Age
“Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Real #Dark #Doors
“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Gains #Disability #Vocation
“We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?”
-- C. S. Lewis

#Father #Long #Heaven

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