Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature... C. S. Lewis differentchoicesmotivational If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality. C. S. Lewis savageswould-beideas It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. C. S. Lewis crucifixion-of-christcostnice I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy. C. S. Lewis realdramamen We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble. C. S. Lewis laughterhumbleblood I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering. C. S. Lewis sufferingchildrenthinking When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. C. S. Lewis often-isfeelingsfriendly Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. C. S. Lewis giving-uprealself These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in. C. S. Lewis lawideasthinking By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? C. S. Lewis argumentpatientarguing True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation. C. S. Lewis true-faithexpectationsfound 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 C. S. Lewis cottagespalaceslittles What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist? C. S. Lewis dentistmeanpeople God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. C. S. Lewis carrunningmen A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. C. S. Lewis churchselfmay The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis christianitymenson I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey. C. S. Lewis being-freefreedompurpose The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ. C. S. Lewis churchmenchrist The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ. C. S. Lewis unionsdoelying Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. C. S. Lewis talkingwaterthinking
