Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. C. S. Lewis pain-and-pleasurepleasurepain True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. C. S. Lewis gazingtrue-friendgoal We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. C. S. Lewis angelanimalmen No one can teach riding so well as a horse. C. S. Lewis practice-makes-perfectridinghorse Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. C. S. Lewis introducingmoralityteacher We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us. C. S. Lewis god-lovemademay When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world C. S. Lewis christianinspirationalworld We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us. C. S. Lewis supportcausesreal And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. C. S. Lewis partytakendoubt You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are. C. S. Lewis holyguidanceghost Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading C. S. Lewis permitreadingbook If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. C. S. Lewis linespagesthinking Our problem with desire is that we want too little. C. S. Lewis wantdesirelittles Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses. C. S. Lewis wisdommotherchildren If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. C. S. Lewis god-is-lovedefinitionskindness All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. C. S. Lewis invisibleunattainableconsciousness Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis successpositiveinspirational The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis teachingeducationteacher The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis inspirationallifefunny Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. C. S. Lewis generositykindnessinspirational
