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Christian Quotes by C. S. Lewis

77 Christian quotes by C. S. Lewis

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Love, in the Christian sense, is a state of the will, not just a feeling. Lewis warns that Christians must watch their inner thoughts, because bad behavior can make the faith seem unbelievable to others. He also says the world exists partly for prayer and that looking toward eternity is not escape but a purpose.

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The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

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When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

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The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

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Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

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I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

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A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

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We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

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The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation…

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God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

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The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

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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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In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the…

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To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to…

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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were…

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I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray…

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We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect…

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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either…

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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 could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution…

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Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in…

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Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it…

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Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group…

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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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Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the…

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A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in…

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Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,…

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Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental…

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Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the…

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The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to…

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When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters…

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If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time…

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Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

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

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According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

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He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

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True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

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A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

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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…