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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 20

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If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

Wise, Real, Giving

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

Faith, Men, Thinking

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.

Fall, Heaven, Earth

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

Life, Christian, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.

Christian, Teacher, Jesus

I want God, not my idea of God.

Ideas, Want

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.32, Faber & Faber

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

Self, Choices, Hell

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

Real, Men, People

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

Christian, Believe, Church

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.293, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Gnats, People, Ordinary

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Pain, Self, Perfect

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Angel, Imagine

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

Faith, Inspiration, Years

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

Feelings, Special, Battle

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Son, Men, Christianity

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'

Echoes, Soul, Doubt

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

Growing Up, Gains, Process

C. S. Lewis (1992). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.

Being In Love, Love Is, Feelings

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.97, HarperCollins UK

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

World, Path, Seems

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

Lying, Frustration, Hands

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

Teacher, Taken, Use

"Letters of C. S. Lewis" by C. S. Lewis, (p. 247), 1966.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Inspirational, Kindness, Generosity

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

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Faith, Inspiration, Religion

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

Ambition, Mean, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Home, Animal, Men

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