Inspiring Quotes From C. S. Lewis
Oxford, England
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -C.S. Lewis
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On his 60th birthday, comedian Rob Schneider revealed that he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, finding freedom from the hatred that once ruled his life. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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On his 60th birthday, comedian Rob Schneider revealed that he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, finding freedom from the hatred that once ruled his life. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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On his 60th birthday, comedian Rob Schneider revealed that he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, finding freedom from the hatred that once ruled his life. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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On his 60th birthday, comedian Rob Schneider revealed that he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, finding freedom from the hatred that once ruled his life. bit.ly/3MKg9ru
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On his 60th birthday, comedian Rob Schneider revealed that he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, finding freedom from the hatred that once ruled his life. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."-C.S. Lewis
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Colorado head coach Deion Sanders says he has no intention of complying with activists who demand he 'cease infusing the football program with Christianity.' bit.ly/4e7pe8O
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“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
#CSLewis
#MerryChristmas
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On his 60th birthday, comedian Rob Schneider revealed that he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, finding freedom from the hatred that once ruled his life. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.”
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We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink & sex & ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he can’t imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased
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Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D., who recently gave her life to Jesus, is asking for prayers for her husband, who is not yet a believer. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” - C.S. Lewis
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On his 60th birthday, comedian Rob Schneider revealed that he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, finding freedom from the hatred that once ruled his life. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
#CSLewis
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"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."
#CSLewis | #MerryChristmas
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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.”
#CSLewis
The Problem of Pain
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“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
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“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” -C.S. Lewis
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“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
#CSLewis
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.”
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” -C.S. Lewis
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"Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
#CSLewis
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“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
#CSLewis
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“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
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Colorado head coach Deion Sanders says he has no intention of complying with activists who demand he 'cease infusing the football program with Christianity.' beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C.S. Lewis
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“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.”
#CSLewis
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“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” - C.S. Lewis
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“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” - C. S. Lewis
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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.”
#CSLewis
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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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“If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them."
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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."
#CSLewis
(The Problem of Pain)
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“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” - C.S. Lewis
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“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
#CSLewis | #HappyNewYear
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"To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now…When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased."
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“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."
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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…you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” - C.S. Lewis
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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 with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, & if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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"A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time."
#CSLewis | #MereChristianity
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
#CSLewis
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
#CSLewis
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“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
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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’.”
#CSLewis
The Problem of Pain
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“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
#CSLewis
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“God won’t alter people’s character by force. He can and will alter them—but only if the people will let Him…He would rather have a world of free beings, with all its risks, than a world of people who did right like machines because they couldn’t do anything else.“
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"Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.”
#CSLewis | #MereChristianity
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Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house…He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably…You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself.
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"A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time."
#CSLewis | #MereChristianity
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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’.”
#CSLewis
The Problem of Pain
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"Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
#CSLewis
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"A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time." #CSLewis
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“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” - C.S. Lewis
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” - C.S. Lewis
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“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.” - C.S. Lewis
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“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.”
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” - C.S. Lewis
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.”
#CSLewis
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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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“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.”
#CSLewis
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"When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world."
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“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” -C.S. Lewis
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“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” - C.S. Lewis
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
#CSLewis
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is…we were made for another world.
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“Christianity, if false, is of no importance and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” - C.S. Lewis
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"There is always some peace in having submitted to the right. Don’t spoil it by worrying about the results, if you can help it. It is not your business to succeed (no one can be sure of that) but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God."
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“There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.”
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"He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love"
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“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” - C. S. Lewis
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected & reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now the most shining & obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms.
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“Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is).
Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.”
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“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” - C.S. Lewis
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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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“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.”
#CSLewis | #MereChristianity
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“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.”
#CSLewis
Letters of C. S. Lewis
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On his 60th birthday, comedian Rob Schneider revealed that he decided to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior, finding freedom from the hatred that once ruled his life. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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"Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted…"
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“Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
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"To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."
#CSlewis
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected & reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now the most shining & obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms.
#CSLewis
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He shows much more of Himself to some people…not because He has favorites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind & character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.
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“If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.”
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“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.”
#CSLewis
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