the fairy tale stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from dulling or emptying the actual world, gives it a new dimension of depth. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: The reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: c-s-lewis of-other-worlds
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: mere-christianity
Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.
C.S. LewisWatchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.
C.S. LewisChild," said Aslan, "did I not explain to you once before that no one is ever told what might have been?
C.S. LewisBut it is in the rooms, not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in.
C.S. LewisOnce the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.
C.S. LewisSafe? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good.
C.S. LewisYou can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?
C.S. LewisIn reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
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