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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 32

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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Friendship, People, Should

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

Thinking, Christ, Knows

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Inspirational, People, Religion

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Truth, Matter, Ifs

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Diversity, Heaven, Grace

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

Hands, Vices, Want

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.36, Harper Collins

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

Believe, Character, Men

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

Perfection, Despair, Needs

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

Demand, Beloved

A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

Nice, People, Would Be

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

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

Ideas, Perfection, Mind

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

Christian, Hypocrite, Special

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

Inspirational, School, People

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

Christian, Secret, Chance

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Marriage, Real, Impact

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Change, Eggs, Ordinary

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

Our World, People, Doe

You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

Giving, Devil, Attention

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Dream, Stronger, Idiotic

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.75, HarperCollins UK

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

Blessed, Heaven, Ends

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

Wisdom, Telephones, Mercy

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Wisdom, Medicine, Disease

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

Determination, Cost, Species

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

Narnia, Proof, Kingship

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.150, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

Love Is, Long, Suffering

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

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