Moments Quotes by C. S. Lewis

34 Moments quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis weaves profound insight into the everyday, turning a simple observation into a doorway to deeper meaning. Across thirty‑four reflections, he invites you to pause and let each fleeting instant whisper a larger truth.

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

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It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected…

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If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our…

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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

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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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Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

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To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

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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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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or…

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Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my…

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Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had…

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Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By…

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You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while…

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Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I…

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I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might…

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From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God…

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We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead…

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Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like…

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The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife…

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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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Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same…

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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 moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And…

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Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest…

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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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After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the…

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Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...

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

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The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The…

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Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut…

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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was…

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Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in…

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The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment…

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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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One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see…

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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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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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