--- title: "15 Perfect Quotes By C. S. Lewis" description: "15 Perfect quotes by C. S. Lewis. Plus more from C. S. Lewis and more Perfect sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/c-s-lewis-2-132_humility_perfect-humility-dispenses-with-modesty_1770644.png" --- > [Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/perfect-humility-dispenses-with-modesty/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/c-s-lewis-2-132_humility_perfect-humility-dispenses-with-modesty_1770644.png) > [Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/perfect-goodness-can-never-debate-about-the-end-to-be-attained-and/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/146/c-s-lewis-2-132_achieve_perfect-goodness-can-never-debate-about_1544423.png) > [God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/god-who-needs-nothing-loves-into-existence-wholly-superfluous-2/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/c-s-lewis-2-132_creatures_god-who-needs-nothing-loves-into-existen_2676847.png) > [When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/when-humans-should-have-become-as-perfect-in-voluntary-obedience-as/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faf/c-s-lewis-2-132_creation_when-humans-should-have-become-as-perfec_1157970.png) > [The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-perfect-church-service-would-be-the-one-we-were-almost-unaware-of/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3d/c-s-lewis-2-132_attention_the-perfect-church-service-would-be-the_1801084.png) > [The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-full-acting-out-of-the-self-s-surrender-to-god-therefore-demands/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f2/c-s-lewis-2-132_absence_the-full-acting-out-of-the-self-s-surren_3033286.png) > [God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/god-has-landed-on-this-enemy-occupied-world-in-human-form-the-perfect/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/345/c-s-lewis-2-132_christ_god-has-landed-on-this-enemy-occupied-wo_642386.png) > [I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/i-suggest-to-you-that-it-is-because-god-loves-us-that-he-gives-us-the/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a2/c-s-lewis-2-132_block_i-suggest-to-you-that-it-is-because-god_2531696.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) > [Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/those-who-put-themselves-in-his-hands-will-become-perfect-as-he-is/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e6/c-s-lewis-2-132_beauty_those-who-put-themselves-in-his-hands-wi_2570910.jpg) > [Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/now-repentance-is-no-fun-at-all-it-is-something-much-harder-than/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbd/c-s-lewis-2-132_bad-person_now-repentance-is-no-fun-at-all-it-is-so_774190.jpg) > [As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/as-long-as-you-notice-and-have-to-count-the-steps-you-are-not-yet/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/c-s-lewis-2-132_attention_as-long-as-you-notice-and-have-to-count_331910.png) > [What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/what-assurance-have-we-that-our-masters-will-or-can-keep-the-promise/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/675/c-s-lewis-2-132_assurance_what-assurance-have-we-that-our-masters_1345507.jpg) > [A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/a-perfect-man-would-never-act-from-a-sense-of-duty-he-d-always-want/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/741/c-s-lewis-2-132_crutches_a-perfect-man-would-never-act-from-a-sen_1331486.jpg) > [A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/a-perfect-practice-of-christianity-would-of-course-consist-in-a/) [C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/545/c-s-lewis-2-132_bachelors_a-perfect-practice-of-christianity-would_2471175.jpg) ## Other authors on Perfect ## 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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