Quotes About Cs Lewis

#1. He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

John Piper

#2. All images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. All said, in a last resort, "It is not high. I am only a reminder. Look! Look! What do I remind you of?" CS Lewis

Philip Zaleski

#3. CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.

Greg Cootsona

#4. I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

Philip Zaleski

#5. His tastes were essentially for what had magnitude and a suggestion of myth: the heroic and the romantic never failed to excite his imagination

Jocelyn Gibb

#6. It delighted him that he could find no use of the word modern in Shakespeare that did not carry its load of contempt.

Jocelyn Gibb

#7. [Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very close friends.

Jocelyn Gibb

#8. What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.

Jocelyn Gibb

#9. He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short.

Jocelyn Gibb

#10. When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect; we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.

Jocelyn Gibb

#11. No one knew better than he how an understanding of poetry depends on an understanding of the poet's universe.

Jocelyn Gibb

#12. He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era

Jocelyn Gibb

#13. Man, to Lewis, is an immortal subject; pains are his moral remedies, salutary disciplines, willing sacrifices, playing their part in a drama of interchange between God and him.

Jocelyn Gibb

#14. life-giving generosity was another depth in Lewis's nature that was part of his greatness

Jocelyn Gibb

#15. It is one thing to understand the doctrine, and quite another to be masters of the controversy.' Lewis's ambition was of course to know the doctrine and to be master of the controversy.

Jocelyn Gibb

#16. Like Johnson, Lewis was more impressive in his conversation than in his poetry, and more impressive in his prose - particularly in his learned prose - than in his conversation.

Jocelyn Gibb

#17. His Christianity, so important to him personally, was also important professionally, for it enabled him to enter into fuller imaginative sympathy with the Middle Ages and Renaissance...and give spiritual substance to his life's work in those fields, so penetrated by Christian thought.

Jocelyn Gibb

#18. Fine scholar though he was, he was an even better teacher; and it may truly be said of him...that in turning men's minds to the Middle Ages he 'stimulated their mental thirst...silently indoctrinating them with nobler ideas, which might afterwards be appealed to as first principles'.

Jocelyn Gibb

#19. a favourite couplet of Dunbar's sums up his view of the whole duty and delight of Man:

Man, please thy Maker and be merry
And give not for this world a cherry.

Jocelyn Gibb

#20. Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?

Jocelyn Gibb

#21. Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.

Jocelyn Gibb

#22. The gift of phrase was instantaneous to him in him, and that must partly account for his huge output; but there was a plentitude of mind as well as a swiftness of phrase to help him; he never put a nib wrong.

Jocelyn Gibb

#23. I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.

C.S. Lewis

#24. His sentences are in homely English, and yet there is something Roman in the easy handling of clauses, and something Greek in their ascent from analogy to idea.

Jocelyn Gibb

#25. His conversion to Christianity seems to have come about largely by thinking...It did not come by sudden intuition, or overwhelming vision, or even by the more usual path of conviction of sin calling for repentance and atonement.

Jocelyn Gibb

#26. Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.

Jocelyn Gibb

#27. What a pity it is that by such superfluous unrealities he should furnish the public with excuses to evade the overwhelming realism of his moral theology!

Jocelyn Gibb

#28. We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche.

C.S. Lewis

#29. Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

C.S. Lewis

#30. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.

Jocelyn Gibb

#31. Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

Ricky Maye

#32. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

C.S. Lewis