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Giving Quotes by C. S. Lewis

51 Giving quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis says poetry turns invisible ideas into solid words, like giving a shape to a whisper. He writes that God helps people with tough problems and gives gifts to those whose hearts are ready to receive them. He also believes that true generosity means giving more than we think we can spare.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in…

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The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live…

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When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in…

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If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually…

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Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth;…

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I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,…

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One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness…

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The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy…

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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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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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But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it 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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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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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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Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

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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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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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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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The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day…

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Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are…

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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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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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As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't…

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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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