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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 10

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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Motivational, Strong, Lying

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Inspirational, Positive, Success

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

Real, One Day, Truth Is

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

Horse, Teaching, Son

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.

Real, Mean, Player

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

Happiness, Mother, Fun

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

Enjoy, Glorify, Inviting

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

Gone, World, Made

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.46, HarperCollins UK

For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

Grief, Circles, Phases

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

Alternatives, Hell, Should

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Kindness, Records, Definitions

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.20, Harper Collins

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Humility, Self, Forgetfulness

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

Inspirational, World, Christ

Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

Fun, Mean, Humble

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Life, Forgiveness, Sublime

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Ideas, Slavery, Belief

C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

Men, Care, Christianity

"The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Obedience

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

Believe, Use, I Can

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

Honesty, Suffering

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Decision, Religion, Way

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.13, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

Family, Friends, Careers

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

Lying, Character, Men

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.23, Harper Collins

Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

Christian, Hands, Perfect

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

Moments, Ready

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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