Favorite Quotes from C.S. Lewis

Looking for a specific quote by this favorite author/philosopher of mine led me to a page full of wonderful quotes from a book by Nathan Jensen--too many to make a simple status update on my facebook. So I can enjoy them again later:



"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."

"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."

"The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence."

"And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies' plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger."

"To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography."

"Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us..."

"A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers--including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."

"'We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge--the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.'"

"To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."

"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 Author's control."

"The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite."

"Looking for God--or Heaven--by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters..."

"Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions."

"He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself..."

"Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."