C. S. Lewis Quotes About Lying

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

• It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Lying

• When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Character, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.23, Harper Collins

• A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Strong, Lying

• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Lying, Waiting

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Wind, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Lying, Pregnancy

• When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Lying, Play

• But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Bridges, Rivers

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.183, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Made, Knows

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

• The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Doe, Unions

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Thinking, Giving

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.9, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Frustration, Hands

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

• Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Sainthood, Action

• This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Sea, Land

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.113, Harper Collins

• and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Serious Things, Truthful

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.21, Harper Collins

• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Zoos, Lying

• I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Morning, Zoos

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Lying, Myth

• For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

  C. S. Lewis

  Sex, Lying, Past

• I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Cutting, Night

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.120, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Play, Joy

• This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Lying, Light

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

• I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Waiting, Gone

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Lying, World

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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