C. S. Lewis Quotes about Motivational

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Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Thinking, Sin

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.127, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Live Life, Mean

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Godly, Christian Inspirational

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Strong, Lying

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.

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Mistake, Sleep

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

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

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Religion, Slave

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.100, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED