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C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology QUOTES

C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology QUOTES

1 " For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives—to both, but perhaps especially to the woman—a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. "

― C.S. Lewis , C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology

2 " Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them—never become even conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through? "

― C.S. Lewis , C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology

3 " You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials “for the sake of humanity,” and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. "

― C.S. Lewis , C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology

4 " Images, whether on paper or in the mind, are not important for themselves. Merely links. Take a parallel from an infinitely higher sphere. Tomorrow morning a priest will give me a little round, thin, cold, tasteless wafer. Is it a disadvantage—is it not in some ways an advantage—that it can’t pretend the least resemblance to that with which it unites me? "

― C.S. Lewis , C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology

5 " Images, I must suppose, have their use or they would not have been so popular. (It makes little difference whether they are pictures and statues outside the mind or imaginative constructions within it.) To me, however, their danger is more obvious. Images of the Holy easily become holy images—sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example; it leaves all previous ideas of the Messiah in ruins. And most are ‘offended’ by the iconoclasm; and blessed are those who are not. But the same thing happens in our private prayers. "

― C.S. Lewis , C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology

6 " Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is “finding his place in it”, while really it is finding its place in him. "

― C.S. Lewis , C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology

7 " Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The "

― C.S. Lewis , C.S. Lewis Theology Collection: An 11-Book Anthology