if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains. C. S. Lewis great-divorce real heaven Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity. C. S. Lewis reciprocity doe love-is Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters. C. S. Lewis reading faith character The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said C. S. Lewis sometimes men years Die before you die, there is no chance after. C. S. Lewis dies chance religion No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods. C. S. Lewis religious inspirational hands Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! C. S. Lewis energy men world He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart C. S. Lewis easter heart food What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. C. S. Lewis wisdom prayer mean Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human. C. S. Lewis vanity humble people In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. C. S. Lewis desire giving needs If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. C. S. Lewis evident sake self I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else C. S. Lewis disobeying sin thinking Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand. C. S. Lewis christian men son Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. C. S. Lewis spiritual christian men Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis wisdom teacher life The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. C. S. Lewis choices soul heaven God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. C. S. Lewis kind drama thinking Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time. C. S. Lewis errors sin time If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there? C. S. Lewis atheist wisdom home
