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C. S. Lewis Quotes

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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Running, Crazy, Mistake

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Where You Are

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

Difficulty, Immunity

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Faith, Believe, People

Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

Shining

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

"The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Life, Encouraging, Not Giving Up

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

Gun, Men, Evil

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Risk, Accomplish, Great Things

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.

Hurt, People, Forgiving

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.

Faith, God, Christian

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Eye, People, Ordinary

C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Real, Unexpected, Truth Is

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Home, Heart, Heaven

I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.

Children, Thinking, Suffering

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Inspirational, Life, Change

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Love Is, Doe, Reciprocity

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

Fearless, Church, Needs

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Order, Religion, Lessons

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Evil, Giving, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

Hurt, Pain, Block

There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.

Beautiful, Wise, Stupid

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.119, Harper Collins

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

Teacher, Jesus, Easter

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.289, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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