C. S. Lewis Quotes About Affairs

• Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Christian, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Decision, Choices, Important

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

  C. S. Lewis

  Brother, Husband, Home

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rainbow, Greek, Privacy

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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