C. S. Lewis Quotes About Songs

• The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Song, Sight

• If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Symphony, Church

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Children, Thinking

• In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Thinking, Light

• Have you not seen that in our days
  Of any whose story, song or art
  Delights us, our sincerest praise
  Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Art, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Sleep, Thinking

• [Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Men, Thinking

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