Top 25 Quotes by C. S. Lewis of 2057 - Page 29

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

Tyrants, Different, Saint

C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

C. S. Lewis

Desire, Glory

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

C. S. Lewis

Want Something, White, Would Be

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

C. S. Lewis

Mean, Pride, Men

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

C. S. Lewis

Literature, Causes, Reason

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

C. S. Lewis

Long, Promise, Beloved

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.96, HarperCollins UK

You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.

C. S. Lewis

Jobs, Sheep, Special

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

C. S. Lewis

Death, Wisdom, People

"A Grief Observed". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1961.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer, Waiting, Mountain

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

C. S. Lewis

Self, Use, Littles

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

C. S. Lewis

Life, Space, Silence

C. S. Lewis, Aurand Harris (1985). “The Magician's Nephew”, p.21, Dramatic Publishing

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

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, New Beginnings, Exception To The Rule

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Religious, Men

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

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

C. S. Lewis

Class, Safety, Honest

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

C. S. Lewis

Mean, Past, Evil

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.103, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

C. S. Lewis

Democratic

C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

C. S. Lewis

Thinking, Law, Ideas

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis

Forgiveness, Religious, Forgiving

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

When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

C. S. Lewis

Alive, Sun, Passed Away

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

C. S. Lewis

Self, Giving, Creation

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

C. S. Lewis

Voice, Cry, Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis (2014). “A Grief Observed Readers' Edition: With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely”, p.25, Faber & Faber

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

C. S. Lewis

Knowing, People, Mind

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

C. S. Lewis

Real, Writing, Interest

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

And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

C. S. Lewis

Silly, Humble, Two

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