May Quotes by C. S. Lewis

71 May quotes by C. S. Lewis

May invites imagination, and Lewis delivers with seventy‑one reflections that blend fantasy, philosophy, and moral clarity. From whimsical musings to deep ethical points, his voice shines throughout.

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We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

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We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

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It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

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If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

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

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A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

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We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

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A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the…

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This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know…

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A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits…

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A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three…

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The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We…

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In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters,…

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The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it…

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All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a…

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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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Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if…

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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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Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it.…

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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The…

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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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If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a…

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Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize…

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Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the…

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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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The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are…

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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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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society…

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Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.…

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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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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

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The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

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An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

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If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is…

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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

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Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

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You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

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The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

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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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