Desire Quotes by C. S. Lewis

28 Desire quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis’s reflections on yearning fuse spiritual insight with everyday experience, and these 28 quotes give a well‑rounded view of his thoughtful approach.

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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

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Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

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“I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health.”

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Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

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Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

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...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

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It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

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Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

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A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will…

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Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has…

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If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

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Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the…

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The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme…

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Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good…

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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I…

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What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own…

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Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing…

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We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now…

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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must…

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Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -…

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Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much…

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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…

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I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race…

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A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in…

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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not…

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It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

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Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps…

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

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

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

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

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

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