C. S. Lewis Quotes About Parties

• Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Views, Order

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.80, HarperCollins UK

• A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Party, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

• He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Love Is, Law

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

• And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Taken, Doubt

• When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Faces, Innocence

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Party

• On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Views, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

• Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Taken, Office

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