C. S. Lewis Quotes About Character

• Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

  C. S. Lewis

  Character, Eye, Vegetables

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

• 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 to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Character, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.23, Harper Collins

• Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Reading, Character

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Character, Divine

• It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Character, Self

• I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Character, Men

• 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

• But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Character, Play, Plot

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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