C. S. Lewis Quotes - Page 3

• The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

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  Dangerous Ideas, Ideas, Dangerous

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• First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

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  Writing, Order, Should Have

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• The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

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  Giving Up, Real, New Beginnings

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• I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.

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  Children, Thinking, Suffering

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  To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

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  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

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  Inspirational, Pain, Stains

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• Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

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  Fear, Nice, House

  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

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• We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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  Motivational, Live Life, Mean

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• A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

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  Spiritual, Culture, Moral

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.293, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

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  Loss, Evil, Decision

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

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  Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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  Education, Clever, Live Life

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  The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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  God, Christian, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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• Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

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  Inspirational, Mean, Doe

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• We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

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  Passion, Self, Envy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

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  Atheist, Views, Christian Inspirational

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

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• We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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  People, Ordinary, Our Lives

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• One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

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  Home, Wilderness, Thousand

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.156, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

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  Nails, Necks, Satan

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• Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

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  Kings, Enemy, Campaigns

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

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  Christian, Inspiration, Pride

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Men, Religion, Church

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• The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

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  Children, Teaching, Taken

  C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

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  Trying, Knows, Can Do

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume One: Family Letters 1905–1931”, p.67, HarperCollins UK

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• For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

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  Spiritual, Cancer, Pride

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

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  Depression, Pain, Heart

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