Seth Elmore > Seth's Quotes

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Do not dare not to dare.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”
― C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore much harder to tempt”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“He relies on troughs even more than on peaks; some of His special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“They will find out in the end, never fear, to whom their time, their souls, and their bodies really belong—certainly not to them, whatever happens”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it is bound to go bad on us”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“It is also necessary to stress than anyone who, on the basis of “religious experiences,“ “says, ‘I know him,’ but does not do want he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“This is the emotional and experiential side of friendship with God. Ignorance of it argues that, however true a person’s thoughts of God may be, he does not yet know the God of whom he is thinking.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“Its purpose is to remind us that it as absurd as it is impious to think that an imaged modeled, as images must be, upon some creature could be an acceptable likeness of the Creator”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it-the fact
that he knows me”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob, For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master,
live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor-spending and being spent—to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others—and not just their own friends—in whatever way there seems need”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“My hope is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis