Men Quotes by C. S. Lewis

166 Men quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis offers a sweeping look at men, from moral dilemmas to everyday virtues. These 166 entries reveal his skill at marrying theological thought with plain‑spoken observation.

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Prosperity knits a man to the world.

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Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

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The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

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The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

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To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

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Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

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Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

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You cannot make men good by law.

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Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

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Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

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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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A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

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The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind…

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To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

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There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing…

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If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who…

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Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill…

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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For…

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For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied…

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There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are…

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I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…

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When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one…

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No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a…

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A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until…

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Man has got to take charge of Man… Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has…

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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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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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God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually…

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What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the…

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..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in…

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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.…

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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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I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race…

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The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would…

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I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…

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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the…

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I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a…

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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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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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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…

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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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