C. S. Lewis Quotes About Meetings

• Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Memories, Heart

• It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

  C. S. Lewis

  Names, Dear Ones, Knowing

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

• God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis, Book I, Chapter 5, ("We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"), 1952.

• Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Men, Lions

• Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kids, Warrior, Would Be

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.74, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• 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

• Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Thinking, People

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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