C. S. Lewis Quotes About Neighbours

• When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters, Neighbour

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

• To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Religion, Attention

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Religious, Black

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

• The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Elephants, Design

• Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mistake, Men, Talking

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.32, Faber & Faber

• Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Clothes, Tunes

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.17, Harper Collins

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