friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art
C.S. LewisI think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. . . . The Scotch catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
C.S. LewisTags: praise c-s-lewis reflections-on-the-psalms
In other words," it continued, "you can't ride. That's a drawback. I'll have to teach you as we go along. If you can't ride, can you fall?"
"I suppose anyone can fall," said Shasta.
"I mean can you fall and get up again without crying and mount again and fall again and yet not be afraid of falling?
Maybe it will go away,' said Lucy.
'It'll be worse if it does,' said Edmund, 'because then we shan't know where it is. If there is a wasp in the room I like to be able to see it.
People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them, and if you're there you can hardly help feeling that you're out of it.
C.S. LewisSweet master doctor, learned master doctor, who ever heard of a witch that really died? You can always get them back.
C.S. LewisIf you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth.
C.S. LewisShe felt frightened only for a second. For one thing, the world beneath her was so very far away that it seemed to have nothing to do with her.
C.S. LewisIt is not for you, a son of Adam, to know what faults a star can commit.
C.S. LewisAnd if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.
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