“The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered. Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, 'Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.'
A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
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“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.”
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“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
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“The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.”
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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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“What do they teach them at these schools?”
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“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”
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“Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
Actually this quote doesn't sound like C.S. Lewis at all. Can anyone provide a source?”
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“For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.”
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“I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your eyes also. Is love content with that? You do them, indeed, because they are His will, but not only because they are his will. Where can you taste the joy of obeying unless he bids you do something for which His bidding is the only reason?”
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“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?”
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“Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.”
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“Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”
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“I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.”
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“You die and you die and then you are beyond death.”
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