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Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...

C. S. Lewis
Motivational, Choices, Different
"Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis, Book III, Chapter 4, "Morality and Psychoanalysis", 1952.

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

C. S. Lewis
Self, Choices, Hell
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

C. S. Lewis
Heaven, Choices, Soul
"The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

C. S. Lewis
Mad, Choices, Nephew
C. S. Lewis, Aurand Harris (1985). “The Magician's Nephew”, p.16, Dramatic Publishing

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

C. S. Lewis
Choices, Relation

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

C. S. Lewis
Animal, Choices, Pet

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

C. S. Lewis
Judging, Choices, Action
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.84, HarperCollins UK

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis
Choices, Joy, Ransom

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis
Individual Choice, Choices, World
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

C. S. Lewis
Decision, Choices, Important
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