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 God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. C. S. Lewis spares infinite attention Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people. C. S. Lewis christian mean people In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. C. S. Lewis spheres charity justice The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god. C. S. Lewis military war thinking Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world. C. S. Lewis our-world bigger inspirational Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not. C. S. Lewis good-times evil doe A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process C. S. Lewis atheism believe religion Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like. C. S. Lewis description repentance demand Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? C. S. Lewis honesty men thinking The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible C. S. Lewis crank praise made I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling. C. S. Lewis differences light doors It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god. C. S. Lewis christian god lying We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God. C. S. Lewis admire wells long Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison. C. S. Lewis stars kings spiritual It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good. C. S. Lewis that-moment rejects moments Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door. C. S. Lewis christian believe jesus When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? C. S. Lewis mean years thinking We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. C. S. Lewis divine character art The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free. C. S. Lewis design water men All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true. C. S. Lewis being-true miracle humans
