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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 19

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Read and Re-Read--Re-reading, we always find a new book.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

Book, Reading, New Books

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

Fall, Perfection, Effort

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

Teacher, Horse, Jobs

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Law, Miracle, Facts

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

People, Behaviour, Kind

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.7, Harper Collins

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

Christian, Eye, Fighting

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

People, Needs, Taught

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Philosophy, Kind, Learning Experience

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

Christian, Fire, Circles

Miracles are for beginners.

Miracle, Beginners

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Selfish, Humble, Conceited

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

Lost Love, Love Is, Hatred

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

Destiny, People, Extraordinary Things

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Respect, Book, Healing

If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.

Real, War, Moving

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.53, HarperCollins UK

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Christian, Passion, People

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.

Children, Doors, Special

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

One Day, Would Be, Serious Things

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

Men, Light, Differences

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

People, Redemption, Improvement

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

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Prepared, Ifs

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

Life, Rumor, World

"Joyful Christian".

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

Hands, Giving, Doe

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

Inspirational, Heart, Religion

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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