C. S. Lewis Quotes About Excuses

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  To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

• In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, People, Excuse

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, Reality, Thinking

• Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Mean, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Mean, Forgiving

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