Giving Quotes by C. S. Lewis

51 Giving quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s 51 statements bring a classic literary voice to the topic, mixing theological insight with everyday practicality. The collection feels like a series of friendly letters urging readers toward generous living.

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God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

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

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Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

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You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

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For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

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That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

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Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in…

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To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a…

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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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Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to…

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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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If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that…

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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

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I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely…

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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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When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer.…

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We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St.…

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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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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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To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To…

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I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's…

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In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who…

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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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But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by…

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Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe…

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

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Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

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Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must…

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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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A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious.…

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Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely,…

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There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or…

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Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have…

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The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.…

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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made…

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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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