Top 42 C Day Lewis Quotes
#1. 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
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#2. The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
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#3. He'll be coming and going. One day you'll see him and another you won't.
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#4. He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down
and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
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#5. In the first week of holidays we might acknowledge that term would come again - as a young man, in peacetime, in full health, acknowledges that he will one day die.
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#6. And all next day and all the next it went on. It went on till one could hardly even remember a time before it had begun. And
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#7. Yes, of course you'll get back to Narnia again some day. Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia.
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#8. Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
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#9. They tell you sex has become a mess because it was hushed up. But for the last twenty years it has not been hushed up. It has been chattered about all day long. Yet it is still in a mess. If hushing up had been the cause of the trouble, ventilation would have set it right.
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#10. I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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#11. Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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#12. Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.
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#13. Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
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#14. The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life
the life God is sending one day by day.
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#15. And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
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#16. C. S. Lewis wrote, "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." Jesus said if your brother "sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him" (Luke 17:4).
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#17. Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.
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#18. Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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#19. Every morning we awake and feel the pressures of the day crowding in on us, and we must decide what sort of immortals we wish to be. Perhaps it
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#20. they'd have him as right as rain in a day or two. And
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#21. All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?
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#22. Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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#23. Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
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#24. But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side an unknown woods, wild heaths, and blue mountain, he thought how large and strange the world was and felt frightened and small.
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#25. And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back
if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?
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#26. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.
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#27. No: Space was the wrong name. Older thinkers had been wiser when they named it simply the heavens - the heavens which declared the glory - the happy climes that ly Where day never shuts his eye Up in the broad fields of the sky. He quoted Milton's words to himself lovingly, at this time and often.
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#28. No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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#29. The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.
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#30. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
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#31. To this day the vision of the world which comes most naturally to me is one in which "we two" or "we few" (and in a sense "we happy few") stand together against something stronger and larger.
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#32. There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
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#33. The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.
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#34. We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."
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#35. It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day
only the shadows were rather confusing.
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#36. Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
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#37. As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.
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#38. I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.
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#39. Day after day there rose a smell which Lucy found very hard to describe: sweet- yes, but not at all sleepy or overpowering, a fresh wild lonely smell that seemed to get into your brain-
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#40. For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
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#41. Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
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#42. Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
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