Way Quotes by C. S. Lewis

45 Way quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis blends imagination with moral insight, and these 45 passages explore how we steer our lives amid doubt and wonder. Expect thoughtful, sometimes playful, guidance for the wandering soul.

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Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

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If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

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A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

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Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

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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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Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

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The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a…

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Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must…

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There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are…

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Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral…

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Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself:…

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If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in…

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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All…

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Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other…

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The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a…

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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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To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,…

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A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in…

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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that…

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Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always…

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It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.…

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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society…

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Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the…

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I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

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The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly…

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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

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The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

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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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You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways…

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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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We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it.…

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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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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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The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will…

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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is…

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Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental…

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And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or…

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When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters…

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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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