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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 24

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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Book, Play, Skills

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.98, HarperCollins UK

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

Men, Christ, States

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Christian, Writing, Doe

I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.

Men, Years, Treasure

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

God, Thinking, Demise

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

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Inspirational, Children, Powerful

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

Christian, Light, Fog

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

Men, Thinking, Justice

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

Beautiful, Life Is, Beauty Of Life

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased.

Moving, Love You, Firsts

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

Giving, Devil, Faults

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

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

Believe, Luxury, Giving

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Joy, Elements, Praise

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.30, Faber & Faber

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

Believe, Needs, Want

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.288, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

Forget, About Yourself

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

Faith, Country, Inspiration

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

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Mets, Eternal

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

Men, Water, Design

C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.

Fun, Adventure, Religion

When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

Thinking, Giving, Needs

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Talking, Use, Done

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Strange, Sin, Illusion

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

Country, Art, Flower

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

Mean, People, Dentist

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.22, Faber & Faber

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Evil, Joy, Free Will

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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