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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 14

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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone,

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

Life, Animal, Reality

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

God, Christian, Theologian

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.34, Harper Collins

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

Men, Thinking, Ambitious

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

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

Life, Believe, People

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

Prayer, Doe, Change God

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

Blessing, Love Is, Passing Away

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I pray because I can't help myself.

Helping, Praying, Because I Can

"Fictional character: C. S. "Jack" Lewis". "Shadowlands", 1993.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Wisdom, Loneliness, Silence

"The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

Inspirational, Marriage, Joy

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

Mean, Iron, Differences

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

Believe, Men, Giving

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.109, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

Humble, Vanity, People

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.110, HarperCollins UK

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Growing Up, Fear, Healing

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

Christian, Teacher, Inspiration

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

Moments, That Moment, Rejects

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

Art, Thinking, People

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

Trying, Gleam, Way

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.127, HarperCollins UK

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Grief, Long, Valleys

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

Running, Past, Law

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Reality, Complicated, Odd

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Guilt, Doe, Facts

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

Inspirational, Walks

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The C. S. Lewis Bible”, Harper Collins

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Events, Stories, Earth

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

Omnipotence, Giving, Capacity

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christian, Running, Loneliness

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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