C. S. Lewis Quotes About Thankfulness

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

• Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gratitude, Fear, Grateful

  1942 The Screwtape Letters, no.15.

• We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Humility, Giving

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