C. S. Lewis Quotes About Perfection

• We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

  C. S. Lewis

  Perfection, Despair, Needs

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

• The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Perfection, Mind

• Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

  C. S. Lewis

  Fall, Perfection, Effort

• The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mirrors, Perfection, Promise

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