C. S. Lewis Quotes About Finding Yourself

• The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Justice

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

• When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Finding Yourself, Turns, Ifs

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

• It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Spiritual, Appreciation

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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