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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Soul

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After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

Hands, Always Trying, Soul

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

Men, Soul, Doe

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Joy, Missing, Soul

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Epic, Soul, Tragedy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

First Love, Love Is, Soul

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'

Echoes, Soul, Doubt

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Giving Up, Soul, Puppets

"The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

Men, Heaven, Soul

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

Real, Mean, Soul

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, 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.

Heaven, Choices, Soul

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

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

Soul, Suffering, Limits

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Soul, Body, Happens

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

Christian, Soul, Unity

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Wisdom, Heaven, Soul

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

Soul, Would Be, Matter

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

Hero, Men, Soul

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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