C. S. Lewis Quotes About Poor

• Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Lust

• I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Thinking, Sick

• Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Stars, Real

  "The Silver Chair". TV Series, (1990 - ).

• Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Noble, World, Treasure

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

• Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, People, Opiates

• Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Giving, Essentials

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

• If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Hands, Would Be

• Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Strong, Drinking

• Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Blood, Heaven

• We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Daughter, Kings

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

• But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Giving, House

• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Dream, Business

• Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lasts, Wonder, Poor

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.161, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Color, Lasts, Ships

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

• Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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