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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Giving

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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Evil, Giving, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

Giving, Empty, Enough

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Christian, People, Giving

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

Thinking, Giving, Needs

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

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

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

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

Giving, Desire, Needs

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

Christian, Talking, Giving

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

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

Giving, Devil, Firsts

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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.'

Giving, Want, Christ

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

Heart, Giving, People

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.117, HarperCollins UK

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Country, Humility, Giving

One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Giving, Needs, May

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

Believe, Men, Giving

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.109, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

Omnipotence, Giving, Capacity

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Reality, Self, Giving

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Letting Go, Giving, Trying

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

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

Hands, Giving, Doe

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

Wise, Real, Giving

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Prayer, Helping Others, Giving

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

Giving, Devil, Faults

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.111, HarperCollins UK

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

Believe, Luxury, Giving

When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

Thinking, Giving, Needs

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

Gratitude, Giving, Give Me

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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