Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. C. S. Lewis exception-to-the-rule new-beginnings inspirational Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. C. S. Lewis real self christian If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. C. S. Lewis needed ifs needs The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. C. S. Lewis activity rewards given Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. C. S. Lewis humility wisdom perfect The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- C. S. Lewis lonely men ideas The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. C. S. Lewis care speak men You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there. C. S. Lewis temples gone found When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary. C. S. Lewis sacrifice self men The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be. C. S. Lewis doe animal men Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. C. S. Lewis important wisdom faith ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is? C. S. Lewis sacrifice loyalty men We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out. C. S. Lewis order looks art I became my own only when I gave myself to Another. C. S. Lewis my-own When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased. C. S. Lewis first-things-first put-first-things-first firsts It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. C. S. Lewis mud-puddles strong desire By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated. C. S. Lewis repent sin acknowledge The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. C. S. Lewis demand way art Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again. C. S. Lewis matter names forget Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received. C. S. Lewis men war long
