C. S. Lewis Quote Explained: There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

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For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

- C. S. Lewis

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Friendship is…the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

- C. S. Lewis

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Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

- C. S. Lewis

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Earth

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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

- C. S. Lewis

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In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

- C. S. Lewis

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Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description.

- C. S. Lewis

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The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

- C. S. Lewis

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If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?

- C. S. Lewis

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Prayer
Silly

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

Friendship is…the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain

There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Explain

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Explain

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. Explain

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Explain

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

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