C. S. Lewis Quotes About Birds

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

• The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Song, Sight

• All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

  C. S. Lewis

  Uplifting, Angel, Heart

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

  C. S. Lewis

  Educational, Men, Differences

  C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.49, TellerBooks

• Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

  C. S. Lewis

  Angel, Men, Birds Wings

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.6, Harper Collins

• A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Sleep, Thinking

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