Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them. C. S. Lewis emptyenoughgiving You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. C. S. Lewis easterteacherjesus There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give. C. S. Lewis stupidwisebeautiful 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 christiangodthinking Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. C. S. Lewis self-improvementinspirationallife If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both. C. S. Lewis dealsnextworld God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. C. S. Lewis lessonsorderreligion I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. C. S. Lewis blockpainhurt Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose. C. S. Lewis happyhappinesslife God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us. C. S. Lewis ministrywant-somethingwant 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. C. S. Lewis forgivenessinspirationalthinking Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. C. S. Lewis christian-inspirationalatheistviews I 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. C. S. Lewis christian-inspirationalbottlesreligion God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them. C. S. Lewis perseverancehard-timeswhat-matters 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. C. S. Lewis religioussecretlove You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best C. S. Lewis denominationsaskingdoors Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit. C. S. Lewis being-in-lovefeelingslove-is We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it. C. S. Lewis forgivenesspracticebeautiful Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis regretfearsympathy It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. C. S. Lewis strongchildrensex
