Quotes From "Reflections On The Psalms" By C.s. Lewis

For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in. C.s. Lewis

The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life? C.s. Lewis

God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal. C.s. Lewis

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well. C.s. Lewis

.. . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least. C.s. Lewis

But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read. C.s. Lewis

When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready. C.s. Lewis

As someone has said "gods" is not really the plural of God; God has no plural. C.s. Lewis

Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, de C.s. Lewis

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. The Scotch catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him. . C.s. Lewis