C. S. Lewis Quotes About Running

• When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Crazy, Mistake

• If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Tired, Thinking

• The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Past, Law

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Running, Loneliness

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

• We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Horse, Want

  C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

• If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Should Have, Wind

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Men, Car

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

• In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Reality, Machines

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Doubt, Narnia

• A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Long, Infidelity

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Past, Offering

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

• Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Machines, Fuel

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

• All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Men, Long

• That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Selfish, Keys

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

• The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Fire, Games

• As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't mean that we should run the risk of making a nuisance of ourselves by witnessing at improper times, but there comes a time when we must show that we disagree.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Running, Mean

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Past, Land

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Total war is the most humane in the long run.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, War, Long

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

• God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Men, Car

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

• What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Believe, Humility

• Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Running, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.105, HarperCollins UK

• We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Heart, Exercise

• The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Truth, Law

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Country, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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