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12-12-2005, 06:20 PM | #1 |
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Favourite Lewis quotes
I know it's hard to avoid typing out whole books, but do you have any favourite Lewis quotes?
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12-12-2005, 07:53 PM | #2 | ||
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Well, I already put these in another thread, but at the time I was thinking, "we need a whole thread for his great quotes"! I guess great minds think alike. Here are the ones I posted before:
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12-12-2005, 08:08 PM | #3 |
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I don't know it off the top of my head, but the one where Aslan says that Susan 'fell by the wayside' always makes me tear up. She was always the 'doubting Thomas' and and that she finally gave up hope makes me sad .
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12-12-2005, 09:20 PM | #4 |
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great idea for a thread, sunny!
sorry, nothing right now, but I have about a million of them in mind ... and I always thought that Susan would repent, btw - "once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen in Narnia" - didn't Aslan say that? She didn't die in England, so she would have had a chance to repent.
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12-14-2005, 09:03 PM | #5 |
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Well, there's a great anecdote about Tolkien and Lewis walking about town when a beggar comes and asks Lewis for a of change. Lewis gives him all his change. As they walk away Tolkien says "Jack, that was nice all right, but you shouldnt have given that man all than money, he's only going to use it in the pub". "Nonsense", Lewis says, " I myself would have used it in the pub".
There's also a great quote that really stood out from The Problem of Pain, something about Animals. Can't think of the right phrasing, so I'll come back later.
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11-20-2008, 04:35 PM | #7 |
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Here's an excellent interview of Peter Kreeft for your listening pleasure. Its genesis is the re-publication of BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL - an imagined Socratic dialogue of CSL, Alduous Huxley, and John F. Kennedy after they all had died on 22 November 1963.
http://radio.nationalreview.com/betw...FjNzQ4N2IxNWQ= I have been reading this little tome since its original publication in 1982. I would recommend it to you highly. The new version has some material I have not (yet) read since I just learned of its re-publication today.
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Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 |
11-21-2008, 07:54 PM | #8 |
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*bump* before this becomes unavailable on listening!
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Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 |
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