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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 13

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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Hurt, Pain, Boys

The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.

Animal, Rights, Names

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

Cutting, Men, Voice

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Praise, Crank, Made

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

Real, Believe, Desire

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.88, HarperCollins UK

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

Book, Reading, Men

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Christian, Inspiration, Errors

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

Screwtape Letters, Suspicion, Suspects

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

Sacrifice, Great Wisdom, Without Sacrifice

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.26, Harper Collins

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Country, Humility, Giving

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Joy, Missing, Soul

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

Brother, Forgiving, Needs

C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

Nice, Crucifixion Of Christ, Cost

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

One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Giving, Needs, May

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

Inspirational, Religious, God Love

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Adversity, Years, Weather

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Men, Dying, Christ

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Miracle

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

Christian, Life Is, Begin Again

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

Spirit

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

Country, Desire, Alive

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.119, HarperCollins UK

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Humility, Done, Proud

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

Needs, Christ, Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

Lying, Doe, Unions

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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