C.S. Lewis' Thoughts

I have not yet had the privilege to read all of the books from which I have selected excerpts for this post. Some of these I have gathered online or from my own personal reading. However, I've recently become fascinated with C.S. Lewis, his life story, as well as is work. I hope you enjoy what wisdom he has to share. I would highly recommend The Problem With Pain by C.S. Lewis as one of the most phenomenal pieces of literature that I have devoured in my limited experience as a reader.

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." --Answers to Questions on Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

"In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity." --An Experiment in Criticism, by C.S. Lewis

"This year, or this month, or, most likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."--C.S. Lewis

"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."-- 'Notes on the Way' Times and Tide, by C.S. Lewis

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves."--On Three Ways of Writing for Children, by C.S. Lewis

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from." --Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."--Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."--Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."--The Problem of Pain, by C.S. Lewis

"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."--The Abolition of Man

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."--The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis

Be Blessed,

-Shanna