All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself. Avoid
- I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore… Believe
- We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of… Actually Met
- The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but… Child
- True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. Christian
- Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Christian
- He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love. Christian
- God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair? Christian
- A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. Christian
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest… Became
- Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue. Cheerful
- A myth is a lie that conveys a truth. Conveys
- Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut. Anger
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex… Ambition
- A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. Food
- Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. Change
- The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil. Begin
- You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. Dive
- It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. Convert
- If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. Chooses
- The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. Funny
- The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. Activity
- Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. Dispenses
- If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. God
- When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its… Creation