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C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 83

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Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

C. S. Lewis
Humility, Cheerful, Firsts

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

C. S. Lewis
Sweet, Long, Noble
C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

C. S. Lewis
Writing, Men, Chemistry
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A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

C. S. Lewis
Religious, People, Church
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Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

C. S. Lewis
Decision, Choices, Important
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Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.

C. S. Lewis
Spiritual, Giving, Awakening
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There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

C. S. Lewis
Differences, Church, Vices
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