Taken Quotes by C. S. Lewis

10 Taken quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis blends imagination with moral clarity, even when life feels pulled in directions beyond our control. These ten snippets give a gentle nudge toward seeing purpose amid the tug.

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Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it,…

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And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough…

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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and…

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Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least…

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A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

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Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)…

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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and…

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If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually…

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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.…

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Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from…

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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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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…

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