C. S. Lewis Firsts Quotations

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased.

Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.