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50 Want quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis blends theological insight with human yearning, turning desire into a moral compass. Fifty of his reflections here illustrate how he sees longing as a bridge between the earthly and the divine.

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We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

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I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

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Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

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Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

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God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

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Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

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The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to…

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I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want…

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God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

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It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves…

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First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

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We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become…

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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very;' otherwise, you'll have no words left when…

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What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter…

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I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely…

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Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much…

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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into…

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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding…

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We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St.…

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As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us…

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Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely,…

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Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -…

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Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,…

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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want…

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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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Man has got to take charge of Man… Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has…

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What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the…

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Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe…

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I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race…

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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want…

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Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much…

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Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

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Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you.…

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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…

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He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away…

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But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking…

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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want…

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Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing…

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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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