Three hundred years ago people in England were putting witches to death. Was that what you call the 'Rule of Human Nature or Right Conduct?’ But surely the reason we do not execute witches is that we do not believe there are such things. If we did—if we really thought that there were people going about who had sold themselves to the devil and received supernatural powers from him in return and were using these powers to kill their neighbours or drive them mad or bring bad weather—surely we would all agree that if anyone deserved the death penalty, then these filthy quislings did? There is no difference of moral principle here: the difference is simply about matter of fact. It may be a great advance in knowledge not to believe in witches: there is no moral advance in not executing them when you do not think they are there. You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
C.S. LewisIt is not that we do not believe the Lord wants the best for us. It is that we wonder how painful the best will be.
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. LewisTag: c-s-lewis beyond-personality
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.
C.S. LewisGod 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. LewisTag: 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. LewisTag: 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. LewisTag: c-s-lewis beyond-personality
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.
C.S. LewisWhen you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?
C.S. LewisBy knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
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