C. S. Lewis Quotes About Destiny

• Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Encouraging, Not Giving Up

• Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Destiny, Knights

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

  C. S. Lewis

  Destiny, People, Extraordinary Things

• Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adventure, Home, Journey

  "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2005.

• What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Destiny, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.353, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Destiny, Wish, Natural

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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