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“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him...”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Four Loves
“If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. ”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Four Loves
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when...”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“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 reality.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“the Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time—for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only man in the world.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself,...”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .'”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Four Loves
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Screwtape Letters
“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C. S. Lewis
,
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched...”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
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