C. S. Lewis Quotes (Author of Mere Christianity)
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1925–54, and Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
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C. S. Lewis Quotes
1. I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
2. Joy is the serious business of heaven.
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3. If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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4. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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5. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
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6. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
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7. True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
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8. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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9. Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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10. Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
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11. He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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12. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
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13. What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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14. Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
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15. Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
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