Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It is not your business to succeed (no one can be sure of that) but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God...”
“Yes, I know one doesn’t even want to be cured of one’s pride because it gives pleasure. But the pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching. If there is an itch, one does want to scratch: but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. As long as we have the itch of self-regard we shall want the pleasure of self-approval; but the happiest moments are those when we forget our precious selves and have neither, but have everything else (God, our fellow-humans, animals, the garden, and the sky) instead.”
“I think it reaches heights of poetry which you get nowhere else: an ether almost too fine to breathe. It is a pity that I can give you no notion what it is like. Can you imagine Shelley at his most ecstatic combined with Milton at his most solemn and rigid? It sounds impossible I know, but that is what Dante has done...”
“I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics. For, above all other spheres of human life, the Devil claims politics for his own, as almost the citadel of his power.”
“I suppose God wants a bit of Imogen and Portia in you, having worked in Miranda and Perdita part enough (it is sometimes helpful to think of oneself as a picture which He is painting).”
“Have you noticed how God so often sends us books at just the right time?”
“All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasises our pilgrim status: always reminds, beckons, awakes desire. Our best havings are wantings.”
“All earthly loves go through some fire before they can inherit the Kingdom.”
“Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf and Roland and Lancelot blubbered like school-girls, so why shouldn't we?”
“About obedience, the principle is clear. Obedience to man is limited by obedience to God and, when they really conflict, must go.”
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Book Keywords:
obedience, paradiso, pride, christian-life, dante
