C. S. Lewis Quotes About Waiting

• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Lying, Waiting

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Adoption, Waiting

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

• We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

  C. S. Lewis

  Train Of Thought, Waiting, Temptation

• If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Learning, People

• If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

  C. S. Lewis

  Waiting, Distraction, Ends

• I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

  C. S. Lewis

  Light, Doors, Differences

• For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Waiting, Mountain

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.64, 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

• I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Believe, Eye

• I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Waiting, Gone

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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