Perfect Quotes by C. S. Lewis

15 Perfect quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s 15 reflections on perfection weave his narrative imagination with sharp moral insight. They feel like a quiet walk through a fantastical landscape, where the ideal is examined through both wonder and reason.

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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

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Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to…

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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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I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's…

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The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from…

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God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was…

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The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every…

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When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will…

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A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in…

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A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.…

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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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As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A…

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Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the…

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Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and…

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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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