C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's."
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"It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"I felt ashamed."But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything"No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal."But how could you help that"Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"Are the gods not just' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?"
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"Of the things that followed I cannot say at all whether they were what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"No man will love you, though you gave your life for him, unless you have a pretty face. So (might it not be?), the gods will not love you (however you try to pleasure them, and whatever you suffer) unless you have that beauty of soul. In either race. for the love of men or the love of a god, the winners and losers are marked out from birth. We bring our ugliness, in both kinds, with us into the world, with it our destiny."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"She made beauty all round her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes - the toad became beautiful."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?"
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
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