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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 15

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Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Grumbling, Complaining, Blame

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

People, Trying, Rebel

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

Father, Mistake, Home

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Wisdom, Eye, Dark

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Truth, Live Life, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Wisdom, Prayer, Mean

"Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1963.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

Sight, Woods, Matter

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

Doe, Satisfaction

C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.128, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Epic, Soul, Tragedy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

People, Evil, Arithmetic

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Book, Reading, Long

"On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

Impossible Things, Self, Hands

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

Inspirational, Real, Heart

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

Art, Demand, Way

C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

Christian, Lying, Pregnancy

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

Given, Philanthropy Giving, Expected

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

Made, Found

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

Opinion

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

Errors, Temptation, Needs

In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.

Real, Blessed, Jealous

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

Believe

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Book, Next Week, Afternoon

What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

Real, Writing, Fire

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

Humility, Personality, Unity

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

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

Rights, Punishment, Names

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