C. S. Lewis Quotes About Mountain

• The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Home, Thinking

• Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Journey, Air

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Waiting, Mountain

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Men, Race

• Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Blood, Heaven

• And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Mountain, Might

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.7, Harper Collins

• Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Reality, Feet

• The Guide sang:
  The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought,
  And fools crying,
  Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun!
  The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run
  Faster for ever,
  The old age is done,
  We have new lights and see without the sun.
  (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea,
  Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Art, Light

  "The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, pp. 186-187, 1933.

• A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

  C. S. Lewis

  Night, Men, Feet

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.106, HarperCollins UK

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