C.S. Lewis Quotes part 2
C.S. Lewis Quotes Part II
"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying."
--Mere Christianity
"Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self..."
--Mere Christianity
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning"
--Mere Christianity
"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction."
--Surprised by Joy
"The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."
--The Screwtape Letters
"The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it."
--Surprised by Joy
"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..."
--'The Seeing Eye', Christian Reflections (150)
"Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated."
--Letters (25 May 1962)
"Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful."
--The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
"'Something of God...flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.'"
--'Scraps', St. James' Magazine
"'Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.'"
--The Great Divorce
