Top 25 Quotes by C. S. Lewis of 2057 - Page 4

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

C. S. Lewis

Depression, Pain, Heart

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

C. S. Lewis

Christian, People, Giving

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

C. S. Lewis

Three, Might, Cups

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, God, Religion

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

C. S. Lewis

Praying, Change God, I Pray

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.

C. S. Lewis

Wanted, Seeking God, Seriousness

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

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

C. S. Lewis

Religious, Philosophical, Emotional

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

C. S. Lewis

Lying, Wind, Trying

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

C. S. Lewis

Splinters, Grain, Universe

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

C. S. Lewis

Spiritual, Cancer, Pride

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

C. S. Lewis

Squares, Religion, Atheism

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

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

C. S. Lewis

Taken, Men, Hell

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

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

C. S. Lewis

Children, Heart, Want

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

C. S. Lewis

Silence, Speech

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

C. S. Lewis

Men, Religion, Church

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

C. S. Lewis

Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

Letter to Arthur Greeves on December 29, 1935. "They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963)". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 477, 1979.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Spiritual, Men

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

C. S. Lewis

Rebel, Arms, Imperfect

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis

Peace, War, Government

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

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

C. S. Lewis

Wisdom, Men, World

C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Morning, Jobs

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

C. S. Lewis

Christianity, Easier, Courses

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

C. S. Lewis

Evil, Abuse, Free Will

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

C. S. Lewis

Perseverance, Hard Times, What Matters

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”