Doe Quotes by C. S. Lewis

53 Doe quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s blend of imagination and moral insight shines across fifty‑three remarks on a Doe. Expect the same gentle humor and theological depth that color his longer works, now focused on a single, humble subject.

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We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

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I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

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[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

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Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

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Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

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The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

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The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

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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…

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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the…

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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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The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that…

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There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me

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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and…

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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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If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who…

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We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and…

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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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Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by…

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just…

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What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter…

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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to…

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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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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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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.…

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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories…

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Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same…

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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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I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But…

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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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A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

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I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

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No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from…

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Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

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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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There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some…

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The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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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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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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

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

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