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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Inspirational - Page 3

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Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

Inspirational, Jesus, World

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.293, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Inspirational, Truth Is, Interruptions

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Inspirational, New Beginnings, Exception To The Rule

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Inspirational, Religious, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

Inspirational, Christian, Thinking

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Inspirational, People, Religion

The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

Inspirational, School, People

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

Inspirational, Religious, Hands

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

Inspirational, Adventure, Lasts

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you...We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.

Inspirational, Religious, Needs

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Inspirational, Water, Inquiry

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Inspirational, Book, Reading

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

Inspirational, Religious, Self

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Inspirational, Conceited, Men

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Inspirational, Prayer, Literature

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

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Inspirational, Want, Narnia

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Inspirational, Father, Light

C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

Inspirational, Impossible Things, Self

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Inspirational, Each Day, Becoming

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Inspirational, Joy, Sometimes

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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