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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 17

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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Heart, Animal, Broken

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

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Mistake, Evil, Necessary Evil

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

Faith, Wisdom, Important

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

Trust, Artist, Leaving

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Style, Want, Way

"C. S. Lewis on Heaven, Earth and Outer Space". Interview with Sherwood Eliot Wirt, www1.cbn.com. May 07, 1963.

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

Running, Machines, Fuel

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

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

Running, Reality, Machines

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

Inspirational Life, Taken, Men

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

Mysterious, Bigs

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

Father, Long, Heaven

"A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works".

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Letting Go, Giving, Trying

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

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

Freedom, Being Free, Purpose

Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

Real, Journey, Air

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

Motivational, Mistake, Sleep

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

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Wisdom, Atheist, Home

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

Real, Humble, Intelligent

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.112, HarperCollins UK

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

Spiritual, Taken, Thinking

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

Brain, Religion, Atheism

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Life, Grief, Sadness

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

Christian, Men, Judging

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.84, HarperCollins UK

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

Strong, Mean, Fighting

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

Drama, Reading, Doctrine

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

Men, Scotch, Forever

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

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

Delight, Incomplete

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

Children, Heart, Want

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