Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C. S. Lewis where-you-are 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 faith god Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM. C. S. Lewis shining To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. C. S. Lewis broken-heart inspirational love To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. C. S. Lewis forgiveness christian god Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. C. S. Lewis immunity difficulty Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. C. S. Lewis christian inspiring inspirational Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. C. S. Lewis change inspirational life There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me. C. S. Lewis forgiving hurt people Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours. C. S. Lewis self hands thinking The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home. C. S. Lewis home heart heaven You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. C. S. Lewis spiritual inspirational life The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks C. S. Lewis gun evil men If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it. C. S. Lewis proud done humility There are 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 dedication god inspirational Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. C. S. Lewis not-giving-up encouraging life The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own. C. S. Lewis new-beginnings giving-up real I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me. C. S. Lewis because-i-can praying helping Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis freedom wisdom religious Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. C. S. Lewis change inspiring inspirational
