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Done Quotes by C. S. Lewis

28 Done quotes by C. S. Lewis

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When you’re looking for a boost of practical wisdom, C. S. Lewis’s thoughts on finishing tasks can be surprisingly grounding. These 28 snippets capture his blend of moral clarity and gentle humor, giving you a steady hand as you push projects across the finish line.

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Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

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No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

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If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

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The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

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There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be…

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The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from…

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No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do…

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A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without…

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The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done…

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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All…

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The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find…

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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price…

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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 anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize…

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In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are…

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The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come…

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The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It…

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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want…

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We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it.…

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The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in…

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Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the…

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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people…

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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man…

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What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not…

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The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and…

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Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and…

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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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