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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 26

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Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

People, Wish, Want

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.91, HarperCollins UK

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Inspirational, Religious, Lust

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Taken, Mind, Belief

C. S. Lewis (2001). “The Wisdom of Narnia”, HarperCollins

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

Joy, Common, Nonsense

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

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Worship Music, Delight, Psalms

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

Christian, Love You, Love Is

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

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Giving Up, Soul, Puppets

"The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

God, Done, Pay

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Pain, Stupidity, World

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

Gratitude, Giving, Give Me

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

Time, Errors, Sin

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

Wisdom, Grief, Talking

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.14, Faber & Faber

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

Religious, Believe, Mean

C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

Selfishness has never been admired.

Selfishness

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

Atheist, Flower, Atheism

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."

Attitude, Father, People

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.19, Harper Collins

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

Country, Real, Home

"The Last Battle " by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1956.

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

Drama, Thinking, Kind

There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me

Doe, Accepting

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Christian, Humility, Self

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

Mean, Self, Giving

It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

Growing Up, Grumbling, Bud

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

Faith, Blessed, Inspiration

Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

Inspirational, Jesus, World

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

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