Top 14 Most Famous C.S. Lewis Quotes on Faith and Hope
PinThe Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.PinHumility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.PinIntegrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.PinA woman’s heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.PinTo be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.PinGod can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.PinAffection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.PinI 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.PinWhen Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.PinThe Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.PinIf we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.PinYou are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.PinEveryone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.PinNo great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
50 Inspirational C.S. Lewis Quotes on Heaven, Integrity and God (LOVE)
PinLove is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.PinIf you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.PinTo love at all is to be vulnerable.PinThe great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.PinYou cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.PinLove is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.PinDo not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.PinExperience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.PinThere is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.PinI didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.PinMiracles 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.
“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
C.S. Lewis
PinAim at Heaven and you will get Earth ‘thrown in’: aim at Earth and you will get neither.PinDon’t shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you others can see Him.PinIt is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.PinSince it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.PinFriendship… is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…”PinFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.PinWhat draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.PinIt is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.PinOne road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.PinIn our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C.S. Lewis
PinDon’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.PinYou never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.PinEach day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.PinNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.PinThere are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.PinA man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.PinHe died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.PinA proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.PinPride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.PinHuman history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.PinJoy is the serious business of heaven.PinFree will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.PinNo man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.PinI have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.PinGod, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.PinPain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.PinCrying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.PinMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear.PinThe Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.PinWhen we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.PinI think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.PinNothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.PinThe heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.PinAffliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.PinThe homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.PinIsn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.PinThe door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
8 Motivational C.S. Lewis Quotes on Life and Reading (BOOKS)
PinI can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.PinEating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.PinA children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.PinSome day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.PinYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.PinIt is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.PinThe task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.PinNo book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
Clive Staples Lewis Short Biography
Born on 29 November 1898 in Belfast, Ireland, Clive Staples Lewis (more popularly known as C.S. Lewis) was a novelist and the author of one of the most popular children’s books series The Chronicles of Narnia.
As a child, Lewis was enchanted by magical animals and the like, he would write about his imaginary world of animals who resided in a land he called Boxen. Lewis entered Oxford in 1917.
Lewis’ first publication of Spirits and Bondage was released in 1919 which received little attention, this prompted him to return to scholarly writing.
In 1938, Lewis published Out of the Silent Planet and wrote two other books that followed. The trilogy is regarded as one of the earliest science fiction trilogies.
C.S. Lewis published his most popular work in 1950 with the release of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the first book of the Chronicles of Narnia.
Lewis was also a devout Christian throughout his adult life and wrote several books on his faith.
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