A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
C.S. LewisNo man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or telling the truth who becomes really original -- and doesn't notice it.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: c-s-lewis beyond-personality
God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: c-s-lewis beyond-personality
The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: c-s-lewis beyond-personality
You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: c-s-lewis beyond-personality
Never say savor when you only mean taste –
one is a holding on the tongue and an intoxication
and the other is cursory, a sampling, connoting
reluctance to bask. Never say a thing you don’t mean.
Stichwörter: poetry c-s-lewis free-verse superlative
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
The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure to the actual.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: c-s-lewis
But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver.
No, said Tolkien, they are not.
...just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
We have come from God (continued Tolkien), and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming a 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.
You mean, asked Lewis, that the story of Christ is simply a true myth, a myth that works on us in the same way as the others, but a myth that really happened? In that case, he said, I begin to understand.
Stichwörter: myth tolkien myths christ c-s-lewis splintered-light sub-creator true-myth
Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: christianity god faith hope theology letter christ hopeless hopelessness c-s-lewis seeking seek
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