Should Quotes by C. S. Lewis

45 Should quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis offers 45 sharp observations on what we ought to do, mixing theological nuance with everyday practicality. His words challenge you to weigh conscience against convenience.

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To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

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Why should your heart not dance?

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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we…

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The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

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All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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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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I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

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Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

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The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

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The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live…

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I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray…

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If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to…

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If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so…

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Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save…

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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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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps…

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If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of…

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All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled,…

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Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the…

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We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and…

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It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw…

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Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she…

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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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Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son,…

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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but…

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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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Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you…

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It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,…

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It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

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If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

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Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

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Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some…

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Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth;…

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If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of…

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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very…

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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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As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't…

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No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should…

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The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy…

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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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