It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis ...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.) C. S. Lewis bullyinghurtcheating Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come. C. S. Lewis know-howjudgingmen Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain. C. S. Lewis christianperfecthands Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.' C. S. Lewis sacrificementhinking In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. C. S. Lewis cupsthreemight Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good. C. S. Lewis relationship-advicehighestlove We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved. C. S. Lewis evilmeanpast The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. C. S. Lewis churchmenreligion To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. C. S. Lewis advicetryingmean If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. C. S. Lewis easiercourseschristianity God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair? C. S. Lewis christiangivingpeople The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. C. S. Lewis homecountrythinking There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan. C. S. Lewis atheismsquaresreligion The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. C. S. Lewis church-servicewould-beperfect Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having. C. S. Lewis having-funkindfun If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles. C. S. Lewis walksupliftingchristian But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him. C. S. Lewis determinationdoefeelings One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. C. S. Lewis maygivingneeds The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. C. S. Lewis indulge-inunionstrying The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased". C. S. Lewis love-ismenlong
