No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis. C. S. Lewis motherfunhappiness The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. C. S. Lewis intentionselfgod Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. C. S. Lewis oddcomplicatedreality If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this. C. S. Lewis realwisegiving We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. C. S. Lewis truth-isunexpectedreal Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. C. S. Lewis proudselfdanger Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. C. S. Lewis devilliarsinspirational God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created. C. S. Lewis leisurelinesattention I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me. C. S. Lewis forgivenessrealitythinking You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him. C. S. Lewis fightingeyechristian Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.' C. S. Lewis inspirationalworldjesus The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand. C. S. Lewis keysdoorshands Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you. C. S. Lewis upseterrorsopposites The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. C. S. Lewis truth-isone-dayreal Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis catholicreligiousfaith We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play. C. S. Lewis solemnmeant-to-beplay Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed. C. S. Lewis lustreligiousinspirational All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away. C. S. Lewis passing-awayblessinglove-is We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. C. S. Lewis behaviourkindpeople Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.' C. S. Lewis groupschristiansaid
