C. S. Lewis Quotes About Gratitude

• Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gratitude, Fear, Grateful

  1942 The Screwtape Letters, no.15.

• Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Gratitude, Giving, Give Me

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gratitude, Doors, Silence

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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