C. S. Lewis Quotes About Terror

• We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

• 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.

• 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

• Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, People, Hatred

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Children, Book

• He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hatred, Three, Results

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