Ought Quotes by C. S. Lewis

13 Ought quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s imaginative prose tackles the question of what we ought to become, marrying Christian ethics with a literary flair. These passages reveal his gentle urging toward purposeful, compassionate living.

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Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as…

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Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

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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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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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There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

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We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now…

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These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea…

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When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is…

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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as…

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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so…

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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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It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think…

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Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that…

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To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be…

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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…

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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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