C. S. Lewis Quotes about Giving - Page 2

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

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Mean, Self, Giving

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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Love, Giving, Miracle

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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

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Self, Giving, Creation

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

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

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Giving, Needs, States

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

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Giving, Devil, Attention

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

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Believe, Giving, Safe

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

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Thinking, Giving, Advice

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

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Lying, Thinking, Giving

C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.9, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

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Giving, Thrill, Way

Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

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Giving, Comfort, Needs

"The Four Loves". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1960.

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

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Grief, Giving, Feelings

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

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Men, Voice, Giving

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

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Giving, Forever, Today

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

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Giving, Hatred, May

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

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Giving, Religion, Followers

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

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Ideas, Giving, Appetite

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.24, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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

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Christian, Giving, Essentials

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

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.

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Law, Giving, Tasks

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

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Class, Giving, Age

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

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Giving, Forests, Week

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.114, Harper Collins

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

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Goodbye, Giving, Special

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

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Passion, Omnipotence, Giving

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.

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Blessed, Giving, House

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

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Fashion, Men, Giving

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

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People, Giving, Income

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