Quote

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

C. S. Lewis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Essayist
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Literary Scholar
Medievalist
Novelist
Belfast
Ireland
Clive Hamilton
N. W. Clerk
CS Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Enough
Turn
Rings
Trying
Turns
Cease
Would
Spiritual
Merely
Life
Language
Weakness
Depict
Stills
Havens
Weakened
Still
Haven
Gas
Littles
Weak
Ring
Little
Goes
Lower

More quotes by C. S. Lewis

Image
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
C. S. Lewis
Image
God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!
C. S. Lewis
Image
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?
C. S. Lewis
Image
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
C. S. Lewis
Image
I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
C. S. Lewis
Image
You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.
C. S. Lewis
Image
But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.
C. S. Lewis
Image
They Open A Door And Enter A World
C. S. Lewis
Image
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
C. S. Lewis
Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
C. S. Lewis
Image
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'
C. S. Lewis
Image
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
C. S. Lewis
Image
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
C. S. Lewis
Image
To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.
C. S. Lewis
Image
God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
C. S. Lewis