--- title: "Best Giving Quotes by C. S. Lewis" description: "51 Giving quotes by C. S. Lewis. Plus more from C. S. Lewis and more Giving sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/974/c-s-lewis-2-132_abandoned_when-you-give-up-a-bit-of-work-don-t-unl_1638488.png" --- > [When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/when-you-give-up-a-bit-of-work-don-t-unless-it-is-hopelessly-bad/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/974/c-s-lewis-2-132_abandoned_when-you-give-up-a-bit-of-work-don-t-unl_1638488.png) > [We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/we-have-all-we-want-is-a-terrible-saying-when-all-does-not-include/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bec/c-s-lewis-2-132_augustine_we-have-all-we-want-is-a-terrible-saying_2316946.jpg) > [Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/wisdom-the-first-error-is-that-of-the-southern-people-and-it-consists/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c9/c-s-lewis-2-132_believe_wisdom-the-first-error-is-that-of-the-so_112089.png) > [The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-proper-aim-of-giving-is-to-put-the-recipient-in-a-state-where-he/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c9/c-s-lewis-2-132_abdication_the-proper-aim-of-giving-is-to-put-the-r_1795265.png) > [One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/one-of-the-dangers-of-having-a-lot-of-money-is-that-you-may-be-quite/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de5/c-s-lewis-2-132_checks_one-of-the-dangers-of-having-a-lot-of-mo_1115315.png) > [The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-people-with-very-hard-problems-are-understood-by-god-he-knows/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84e/c-s-lewis-2-132_driving_the-people-with-very-hard-problems-are-u_76852.jpg) > [I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/i-know-all-about-the-despair-of-overcoming-chronic-temptation-it-is/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a8/c-s-lewis-2-132_amount_i-know-all-about-the-despair-of-overcomi_1750611.png) > [If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/if-a-thing-is-free-to-be-good-it-is-also-free-to-be-bad-and-free-will-2/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89b/c-s-lewis-2-132_be-good_if-a-thing-is-free-to-be-good-it-is-also_3152837.png) > [As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/as-christians-we-are-tempted-to-make-unnecessary-concessions-to-those/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/c-s-lewis-2-132_christian_as-christians-we-are-tempted-to-make-unn_2663399.png) > [Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/is-it-easy-to-love-god-asks-an-old-author-it-is-easy-he-replies-to/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/c-s-lewis-2-132_all-things_is-it-easy-to-love-god-asks-an-old-autho_607823.jpg) > [The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-human-qualities-of-the-raw-materials-show-through-naivety-error/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7c/c-s-lewis-2-132_bible_the-human-qualities-of-the-raw-materials_101814.png) ## Other authors on Giving - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 162 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-mother-teresa-69278.jpg) Mother Teresa 126 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/mother-teresa/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 112 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 112 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 97 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/rajneesh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pope-francis-75890.jpg) Pope Francis 91 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/pope-francis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 89 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 88 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joyce-meyer-53800.jpg) Joyce Meyer 82 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/joyce-meyer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 80 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 80 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 80 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/mahatma-gandhi/) ## More by C. S. Lewis > [One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/one-of-our-great-allies-at-present-is-the-church-itself-do-not/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/either-jesus-is-the-son-of-god-or-a-madman-or-worse-but-his-being/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/to-every-soul-god-will-look-like-its-first-love-because-he-is-its/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/don-t-you-understand-anything-isn-t-it-absolutely-essential-to-keep-a/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/really-great-moral-teachers-never-do-introduce-new-moralities-it-is/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/when-he-died-in-the-wounded-world-he-died-not-for-men-but-for-each/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/all-i-am-in-private-life-is-a-literary-critic-and-historian-that-s-my/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/if-a-man-is-going-to-write-on-chemistry-he-learns-chemistry-the-same/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-first-fact-in-the-history-of-christendom-is-a-number-of-people/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/i-pray-because-the-need-flows-out-of-me-all-the-time-walking-and/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/are-the-gods-not-just-oh-no-child-what-would-become-us-us-if-they-were/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/love-is-more-than-an-emotion-it-is-a-decision/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [Ink is the great cure for all human ills.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/ink-is-the-great-cure-for-all-human-ills/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/a-man-may-have-to-die-for-our-country-but-no-man-must-in-any/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) > [War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/war-creates-no-absolutely-new-situation-it-simply-aggravates-the/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/c-s-lewis/#itemlist", "name": "Best Giving Quotes by C. S. Lewis", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. 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