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Thinking Quotes by C. S. Lewis

92 Thinking quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis talks about why people keep asking questions about how the world works. He paints God as a living, dancing force rather than a still statue. He also says that dreaming about heroes beating dragons can help us practice courage while we wait for a brighter future.

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It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

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A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

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A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

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Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

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If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

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We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

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Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

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I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it…

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As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

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Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a…

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I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want…

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Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and…

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Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

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The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has…

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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him…

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Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some…

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The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the…

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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why…

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The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment…

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When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in…

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Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,…

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On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can…

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Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half…

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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as…

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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want…

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Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you…

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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,…

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... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and…

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[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,…

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But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

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I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

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On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

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Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

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Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill…

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The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things…

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If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it…

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I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and…

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

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…