C. S. Lewis Quotes About Purpose

• The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

  C. S. Lewis

  Family, Friends, Careers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Freedom, Being Free, Purpose

• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Religion, Church

• For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

  C. S. Lewis

  Differences, Religion, Making A Difference

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Zoos, Lying

• He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Order

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

• If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

  C. S. Lewis

  Educational, Men, Differences

  C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.49, TellerBooks

• The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Thinking, Enemy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Words”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

• An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Mind, Foundation

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

• Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Purpose, Made

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• [Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Men, Thinking

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