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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 2

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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

World, Made, Ifs

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

Helping, Praying, Because I Can

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Education, Clever, Live Life

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

World, Next, Deals

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Life, Happiness, Happy

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

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

Thinking, Training, World

"God in the Dock".

To love at all is to be vulnerable. 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. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

Want Something, Ministry, Want

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Faith, Religious, Catholic

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Love, Inspirational, Life

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

Hands, Always Trying, Soul

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

Men, Judging, Know How

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Inspirational, God, Dedication

"The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Kings, Enemy, Campaigns

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

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

Pride, People

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Inspirational, God, Doubt

"Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 285, 1959.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

God, Christian, Atheist

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

Motivational, Thinking, Sin

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.127, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Beautiful, Forgiveness, Practice

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Inspirational, Forgiveness, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

Atheist, Views, Christian Inspirational

"The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Easter, Food, Heart

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Inspirational, Life, Faith

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