C. S. Lewis Quotes About Prosperity

• Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, World

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

• To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Children, Men

• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

• The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Dark, Garden

• Prosperity knits a man to the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, World, Screwtape Letters

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

• Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, Men, Circles

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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