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50 C. S. Lewis Quotes
November 29, 1898, - November 22, 1963
A collection of C.S. Lewis quotes to inspire you. A British theologian,
author, and Christian apologist, Clive Staples Lewis has inspired millions
world wide. His work is still referred to today and has made many people
stop and think about God and creation.
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Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
C. S. Lewis
Spiritual
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Progress means not just changing, but changing for the better.
C. S. Lewis
Change
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In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine.
C. S. Lewis
Quote of the Day
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You must believe that God is separate from the world
and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.
C. S. Lewis
Quotes about God
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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
C. S. Lewis
Inspirational Quotes
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
C. S. Lewis
Kindness
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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
Happy
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But, the truth is that right actions done for the wrong reason do not
help to build the internal quality or character called "virtue", and it
is this quality or character that really matters.
C. S. Lewis
Character
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If somebody else made me, for his own purposes,
then I shall have a lot of duties which I should not have if I simply
belonged to myself.
C. S. Lewis
Purpose
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We do not want merely to see beauty, though,
God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else
which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty
we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to
become part of it.
C. S. Lewis
Beauty
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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.
C. S. Lewis
Quotes About God's Love
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It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.
C. S. Lewis
Words of Encouragement
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But the ordinary rules cannot be worked until we have decided
whether miracles are possible, and if so, how probable they are.
C. S. Lewis
Decision
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which
is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
Miracle
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only
man made, He would have done no less.
C. S. Lewis
Easter
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because
God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C. S. Lewis
Forgiveness
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God.
For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and
humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
C. S. Lewis
Prayer
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's
ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. Lewis
Love
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of
sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Future
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True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
C. S. Lewis
Motivational Quotes
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The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become -
because He made us.
C. S. Lewis
Being Yourself
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the
very sign of His presence.
C. S. Lewis
God's Grace Quotes
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Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans
somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.'
C. S. Lewis
Motivational Quotes for Work
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Those who assume that miracles cannot happen are merely wasting their
time by looking into the texts: we know in advance what results they
will find for they have begun by begging the question.
C. S. Lewis
Christian Poems
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If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I would say, 'Sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.' I know I am very fortunate in that respect.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship
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We must both, I'm afraid, recognise that, as we grow older,
we become like old cars - more and more repairs and replacements
are necessary.
C. S. Lewis
Funny
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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, and the
contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
C. S. Lewis
Hope
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly
given in its place.
C. S. Lewis
Blessed
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Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have
something to forgive.
C. S. Lewis
Funny Quotes about Life
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Joy is the serious business of heaven.
C. S. Lewis
Joy
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when
it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
C. S. Lewis
Faith
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Jesus Christ did not say, "Go into all the world and tell the world
that it is quite right."
C. S. Lewis
Jesus Poems
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To love at all is to be vulnerable.
C. S. Lewis
Mindset
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The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions
are precisely one's life.
C. S. Lewis
Quotes about Life
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There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will
be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.
C. S. Lewis
Poems about God
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... the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all
your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
C. S. Lewis
Poems about Faith
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
C. S. Lewis
Good
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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
Christian Poems
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The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
C. S. Lewis
Trust God
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When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well,
we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.
C. S. Lewis
Failure
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It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God,
for only the pure in heart want to.
C. S. Lewis
Hope
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Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.
C. S. Lewis
Truth
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Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had
yet been done.
C. S. Lewis
New Beginnings
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing
together over a meal.
C. S. Lewis
Laughter
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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
Peace
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You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
C. S. Lewis
Quotes to Live By
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What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on
where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
C. S. Lewis
Inspirational Messages
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C. S. Lewis
Friend
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The instrument through which you see God is your whole self.
And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God
will be blurred.
C. S. Lewis
Inspirational Sayings
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis
Moving Forward
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