Top 25 Quotes by C. S. Lewis of 2057 - Page 7

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

Fun, Having Fun, Kind

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

Ill Tempered, Show Me, Shows

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Trying, Philosopher

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Color, Lasts, Ships

"The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

C. S. Lewis

Eternity, Eternal, Worthless

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

C. S. Lewis

Pride, Mind, Devil

Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid. But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry that the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is anyway possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere he can be cured and made human again.

C. S. Lewis

Sorry, Hate, Men

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

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C. S. Lewis

God, Wisdom, Atheist

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Determination, Feelings, Doe

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.115, HarperCollins UK

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

C. S. Lewis

True Friend, Eye, Goal

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C. S. Lewis

Believe, Sun, Christianity

Source: www.biblegateway.com

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

C. S. Lewis

God, War, Ambition

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

C. S. Lewis

Love, Friendship, Inspiration

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, May, Forget

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

C. S. Lewis

Writing, Long Ago, Ink

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Pain, World

"Fictional character: C. S. "Jack" Lewis". "Shadowlands", 1993.

Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

C. S. Lewis

Spiritual, Kings, Stars

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

C. S. Lewis

Religious, Thinking, Devil

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

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Giving Up, Taken

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

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

C. S. Lewis

Love, Relationship Advice, Highest

[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.

C. S. Lewis

Faith, Mean, Order

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

C. S. Lewis

Real, Dark, Doors

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Blessed, Blessing

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.87, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

C. S. Lewis

Men, Heaven, Humanity