C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 5

• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

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  Years, Good Man, True Or False

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

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  Heart, Men, Judging

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

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  Uplifting, Christian, Walks

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• Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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  Love, Religious, Secret

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is really ours until we share it.

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  Share

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

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  Motivational, Godly, Christian Inspirational

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• The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

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  God, Christian Inspirational, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

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  Squares, Religion, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.

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  Daughter, Mother, Bullying

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• Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

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  Wanted, Seeking God, Seriousness

  "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963".

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• It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

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  Strong, Sex, Children

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

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  Girl, Song, Sight

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• Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

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  Inspirational, Despair, Christ

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

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  Giving Up, Men, Type

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

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  Taken, Men, Hell

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The Dark Tower and Other Stories”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

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  Thinking, Self, Hands

  C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

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  Men, Water, Design

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

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  Eternity, Eternal, Worthless

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• To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

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  Mean, Advice, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.127, HarperCollins UK

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• Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

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  Believe, Sunrise, Like You

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• He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.

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  Religious, Couple, Eye

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• The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

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  Pride, People

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• Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

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  Men, People, Slavery

  C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.

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  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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• Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

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  Christian, Circles, Earth

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