Quotes by Trying You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. C. S. Lewis knowscan-dotrying To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. C. S. Lewis advicetryingmean The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. C. S. Lewis indulge-inunionstrying You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. C. S. Lewis tryingwindlying We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. C. S. Lewis fightingeviltrying Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers. C. S. Lewis philosopherchristiantrying If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. C. S. Lewis gleamtryingway Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them. C. S. Lewis insomniasleeptrying The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose. C. S. Lewis letting-gotryinggiving Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. C. S. Lewis succeedtryingreligion Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead. C. S. Lewis feelingstryingthinking The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. C. S. Lewis errorsspirittrying An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom. C. S. Lewis reflectiontryingart Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are. C. S. Lewis tryingmenmean God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down. C. S. Lewis house-of-cardstryingorder No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought. C. S. Lewis donetryingmen It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see. C. S. Lewis gardenusetrying The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need C. S. Lewis giving-moneytryingmean There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.' C. S. Lewis snoopingstoriestrying If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis telling-the-truthninetrying«107108109110111112113114115116117»
