Tuesday, September 21, 2010

C.S. Lewis

I found some great quotes by C.S. Lewis;

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

 "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

 "If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."

1 comment:

  1. Nice! I love some of C. S. Lewis's work. (Mainly because I haven't read all of it!) Have you read "Mere Christianity"?

    I especially liked those quotes about originality and the last two.

    ReplyDelete