C. S. Lewis Quotes About Obedience

• I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Freedom, Being Free, Purpose

• Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Delight, Lines

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Real, Self

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Mean, Order

• Obedience is the key that opens every door.

  C. S. Lewis

  Keys, Doors, Obedience

• Obedience is the road to freedom.

  C. S. Lewis

  Obedience

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Personality, Unity

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Atheism, Answers

• A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Slavery, Belief

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

• You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lost Love, Love Is, Lack Of Love

• When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

  C. S. Lewis

  Should Have, Perfect, Firsts

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.43, Harper Collins

• I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Thinking, Order

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

• We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, People, Want

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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