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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 6

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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Men, Law, Good Man

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

To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.

Daughter, Mother, Bullying

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

Doors, Asking, Denominations

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.16, Harper Collins

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

Giving, Needs, Delight

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

Men, Soul, Doe

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Evil, Political, Worship

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

Thinking, Self, Hands

C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

Being In Love, Love Is, Feelings

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

Fighting, Evil, Trying

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Wise, Wisdom, Circles

C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

Inspirational, Men, Self

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

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Love, Broken Heart, Hurt

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

War, Men, Long

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

Uplifting, Christian, Walks

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Inspirational, Forgiveness, Philosophy

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Inspirational, Despair, Christ

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

Men, Thinking, Democracy

C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

Fire, Together, Coal

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Christian, Wisdom, Thinking

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

Beautiful, Lying, Play

To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Philosophy, Simple, Intellectual

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

Country, Thinking, Mirrors

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.17, Harper Collins

And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.

Forgiving, Suggestions, Sin

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

Truth, Views, Answers

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

Teacher, Jesus, Son

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