C. S. Lewis Quotes About Attitude

• A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Humility, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Humble, Men

• We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Father, People

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.19, Harper Collins

• The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Attitude, Would Be

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Real, Passion

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.38, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.138, HarperCollins UK

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