Quote me on Monday!

I just picked up C.S. Lewis's, "Mere Christianity" and started reading it for the third time. He's not an easy read but well worth all the deep and provoking thoughts, I rarely come up with on my own. Com'n, I'm a sleep deprived mother, when am I supposed to get some "deep and provoking" thoughts? Of certainty I'm not receiving any provoking thoughts when I'm trying to shut the noise out of incessant chattering children or trying to hear these "deep, provoking thoughts" above my recognizable yelling, screaming voice. So as a shortcut to deep thoughts or not; here is C.S. Lewis in quotes.


"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
— C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader") ~



"I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not. Nothing was forbidden me. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass."
— C.S. Lewis


"Numbers don't win a battle."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)


Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."
— C.S. Lewis


"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."


"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."
— C.S. Lewis


There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there is never more than one."
— C.S. Lewis (That Hideous Strength)


It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on."
— C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed)

"Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)


"Badness is only spoiled goodness."
— C.S. Lewis


"The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that."
— C.S. Lewis


"Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse - so gradually that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years!"
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)


"The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning! "
— C.S. Lewis


"One day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
— C.S. Lewis


"When pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all."
— C.S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)


"Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)