C. S. Lewis Quotes About Authority

• Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Delight, Lines

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

  C. S. Lewis

  Exercise, Animal, Men

• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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