--- title: "13 Ought Quotes By C. S. Lewis" description: "13 Ought quotes by C. S. Lewis. Plus more from C. S. Lewis and more Ought sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/c-s-lewis-2-132_bills_your-book-bill-ought-to-be-your-biggest_1941614.png" --- > [Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/your-book-bill-ought-to-be-your-biggest-extravagance/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/c-s-lewis-2-132_bills_your-book-bill-ought-to-be-your-biggest_1941614.png) > [I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/i-do-not-believe-one-can-settle-how-much-we-ought-to-give-i-am-afraid/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd7/c-s-lewis-2-132_believe_i-do-not-believe-one-can-settle-how-much_499317.png) > [There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/there-ought-to-be-things-we-should-like-to-do-and-cannot-do-because/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92c/c-s-lewis-2-132_charitable_there-ought-to-be-things-we-should-like_1026792.png) > [We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/we-ought-to-give-thanks-for-all-fortune-if-it-is-good-because-it-is/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/047/c-s-lewis-2-132_christian-thanksgivi_we-ought-to-give-thanks-for-all-fortune_2958657.png) > [Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/most-people-spend-most-of-their-lives-doing-neither-what-they-want-to/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/012/c-s-lewis-2-132_doing_most-people-spend-most-of-their-lives-do_1141980.png) > [The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-most-dangerous-thing-you-can-do-is-to-take-any-one-impulse-of-2/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/c-s-lewis-2-132_can-do_the-most-dangerous-thing-you-can-do-is-t_1091300.png) > [When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/when-you-are-not-feeling-particularly-friendly-but-know-you-ought-to/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb5/c-s-lewis-2-132_behave_when-you-are-not-feeling-particularly-fr_1482974.png) > [These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/these-then-are-the-two-points-i-wanted-to-make-first-that-human-2/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/c-s-lewis-2-132_behave_these-then-are-the-two-points-i-wanted-t_1291665.png) > [We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/we-want-to-know-not-how-we-should-pray-if-we-were-perfect-but-how-we/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/c-s-lewis-2-132_asks_we-want-to-know-not-how-we-should-pray-i_50905.png) > [Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/honest-rejection-of-christ-however-mistaken-will-be-forgiven-and/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/c-s-lewis-2-132_be-a-man_honest-rejection-of-christ-however-mista_832319.png) > [It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/it-is-usual-to-speak-in-a-playfully-apologetic-tone-about-one-s-adult-2/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/c-s-lewis-2-132_adults_it-is-usual-to-speak-in-a-playfully-apol_2627599.jpg) > [We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/we-must-sometimes-get-away-from-the-authorized-version-if-for-no/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/c-s-lewis-2-132_adoration_we-must-sometimes-get-away-from-the-auth_1498342.jpg) > [The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-most-dangerous-thing-you-can-do-is-to-take-any-one-impulse-of/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f44/c-s-lewis-2-132_absolutes_the-most-dangerous-thing-you-can-do-is-t_185309.jpg) ## Other authors on Ought ## 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. 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