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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 21

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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Prayer, Helping Others, Giving

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

Hate, Silly, Men

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Trying, Nine, Telling The Truth

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

Long, Admire, Wells

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.111, HarperCollins UK

You cannot make men good by law.

Men, Law

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.71, HarperCollins UK

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Christian, Virtue, Chastity

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Time, Animal, Eternal Love

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

Men, Doe, Sake

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Desire, World, Made

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

Fear, Grief, Yawning

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

Inspirational, Sunshine, Reflection

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

Feel Better, Mind, Made

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VII: The Last Battle”, p.73, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

Religion, Calling, Lions

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

Evil, Catholic, Way

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Prayer, Real, May

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

Player, Thinking, Games

"Joyful Christian".

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

Kings, Life Changing, Men

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Monday, Real, Peer Pressure

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

Artist, Self, Remember

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

Get Better, Goes On, When Things Go Wrong

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.102, Harper Collins

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

Way

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

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

Doe, Watches, Would Be

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Cutting, Religion, Sitting

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

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

Agony, Heaven, Glory

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

Mean, Men, Long

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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