C. S. Lewis Quotes About Growing Up

• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Grumbling, Bud

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Gains, Process

  C. S. Lewis (1992). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Growing Up, Years

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

• When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Men, People

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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