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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 8

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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Sympathy, Regret, Fear

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

Moving, Doe, Hopeless

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.127, Harper Collins

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

Mind, Doe, Needs

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Inspirational, Kindness, Love Is

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

Christian, Prayer, Believe

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Doors, Heaven, Useless

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

Art, Reflection, Trying

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.9, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Strong, Believe, Life And Death

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

Christian, Groups, Said

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

Believe, Fall, Errors

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

Real, Self, Long

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Church Service, Perfect, Would Be

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This moment contains all moments.

Moments, Great Divorce

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

Church, Together, Christianity

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

Christian, Men, Repent

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

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

Jesus, People, Hatred

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Kindness, Giving, Feelings

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Wisdom, Giving, Forever

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

Inspirational, Adoption, Waiting

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

Art, Men, Helping

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

Fire, Hands, Water

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

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

Keys, Doors, Obedience

...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)

Bullying, Cheating, Hurt

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

Want, Facts, Want U

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

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

Clever, Eggs, Vision

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