C.S. Lewis Quotes part 3
C.S. Lewis Quotes Part III
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. "
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."
"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
