What is your favorite C. S. Lewis quote?

Question

Could you list where they are from too?

Answer 1

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." . . . C.S. Lewis

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37797.html

Answer 2

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered live by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to full what temptation means--the only complete realist."

I don't know where it comes from?? I think it's my favorite out of a long list of favorites though..

Answer 3

The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness.

Answer 4

"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."

Answer 5

"Child, all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me. Then by reasons as my great desire for wisdom and understanding I overcame my fear and questioned the Glorious One, and said: Lord, is it then true as the Ape said that thou and Tash are one? The Lion growled so that the earth shook (but his wrath was not against me) and said: It is false. Not because he and I are one, but becasue we are opposites, I take to me the services that thou hast done to him. For I and he are of such different kinds, that no service that is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swears by Tash and keeps his oath for the oaths' sake it is by me that he has truly sworn though he know it not and it is I who reward him, and if any man do a cruelty in my name then though he says the name 'Aslan' it is Tash whom he serves and it is by Tash that his deed is accepted...."

The Last Battle Chapter 15 Pg 188-189

Answer 6

either:
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
or
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." (oh yeah - that's a good one!)

Answer 7

"There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. "

- The Screwtape Letters (1942)

Answer 8

Looking for a good answer on this too

Answer 9

"Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."

The Four Loves - 1960

Answer 10

"time is gold"