C. S. Lewis Quotes About Achievement

• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

• The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Life Changing, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

• Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Silence, Achievement

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, Scribner

• 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 of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Achievement, Cost

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.27, Harper Collins

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