C. S. Lewis Quotes About House

• Imagine yourself as a living house.

  C. S. Lewis

  House, Imagine

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.298, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

  C. S. Lewis

  House Of Cards, Order, Trying

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.26, Faber & Faber

• Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Nice, House

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

• To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Children, Men

• If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Order, House

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Grief, Yawning

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

• The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Keys, Doors, Hands

• Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Cat, Animal

• I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

  C. S. Lewis

  Light, Doors, Differences

• I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Kings, Children

  "The Horse and His Boy". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1954.

• You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, Law

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.18, Harper Collins

• You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Thinking, House

• Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, House, Stories

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

• When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, People, Broken

• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, Mean, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

• If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blow, House Of Cards, Imagination

  C.S. Lewis (2014). “A Grief Observed Readers' Edition: With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely”, p.21, Faber & Faber

• But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Giving, House

• Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

  C. S. Lewis

  Talking, Water, House

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.72, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, House

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

• He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Clothes

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.1, Harper Collins

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