C. S. Lewis Quotes About Shame

• We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Bible, Book

• I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Thinking, Awkward

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

• You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

  C. S. Lewis

  Earth, Bows, Narnia

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.157, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Perception, Shame

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Humility

• The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Shame, Frankness

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