Best C.S. Lewis Thoughts
- The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... End
- The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that… Apparent
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. All
- A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to… Blaze
- In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. Act
- For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being. All
- In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are. Coming
- When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you… Character
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like… Avoid
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his… Any
- Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that… Belief
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other… Believe
- Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the… All
- It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden… All
- For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. Compulsion
- Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who… Admired
- The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills… Achievement
- We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. God
- You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to… Act
- God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of… Became
- How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. Alike
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is… All
- Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels. Angel
- Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs All
- Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed. Arise
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