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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 3

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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Writing, Order, Should Have

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Motivational, Live Life, Mean

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

Dangerous Ideas, Ideas, Dangerous

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Trying, Knows, Can Do

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume One: Family Letters 1905–1931”, p.67, HarperCollins UK

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

Children, Teaching, Taken

C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

God, Christian Inspirational, Feelings

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

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

Giving, Empty, Enough

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

Passion, Self, Envy

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.7, Harper Collins

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Spiritual, Culture, Moral

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

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

Giving Up, Real, New Beginnings

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

Christian Inspirational, Religion, Bottles

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.48, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

People, Ordinary, Our Lives

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

Loss, Evil, Decision

"The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

God, Christian, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Inspirational, Happiness, Religious

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

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

Inspirational, Mean, Doe

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

Fear, Nice, House

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

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Love Is, Decision, Emotion

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

Nails, Necks, Satan

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

Prayer, Opposites, Ignored

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Forgiveness, God, Christian

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

Journey, Heaven, Helping

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Instruments

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

Inspirational, Pain, Stains

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

Home, Wilderness, Thousand

C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.156, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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