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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Feelings

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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

God, Christian Inspirational, Feelings

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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.

Determination, Feelings, Doe

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

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

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

Feelings, Special, Battle

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.

Being In Love, Love Is, Feelings

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.97, HarperCollins UK

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

Often Is, Feelings, Friendly

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

Feelings, Insecurity, Cheerful

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

God, Night, Feelings

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.

Thinking, Feelings, Trying

C.S. Lewis (2014). “A Grief Observed Readers' Edition: With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely”, p.21, Faber & Faber

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

Grief, Giving, Feelings

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.

Long, Feelings, Promise

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

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

Feelings, Promise, Goes On

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.96, HarperCollins UK

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

Feelings, Obligation, Feels

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.

Snow, Feelings, Mouths

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

Philosophy, Feelings, Given

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.50, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

Wine, Men, Feelings

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

Selfish, People, Feelings

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

Names, Voice, Feelings

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

Religious, Feelings, Doubt

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

Tired, Long, Feelings

C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

Mean, Feelings, Behavior

A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.

Expression, People, Feelings

'The Screwtape Letters' (1942) no. 26

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