Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences. C. S. Lewis irondifferencesmean Nothing is really ours until we share it. C. S. Lewis share God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. C. S. Lewis stainspaininspirational Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him. C. S. Lewis seriousnessseeking-godwanted Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis live-lifeclevereducation To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says. C. S. Lewis bullyingdaughtermother Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it. C. S. Lewis nicefearhouse The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. C. S. Lewis circleswisdomwise On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. C. S. Lewis necksnailssatan You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make. C. S. Lewis impressionpeoplethinking There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis inspirationallovelife True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord. C. S. Lewis true-friendeyegoal Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken. C. S. Lewis painheartdepression Forgiveness does not mean excusing. C. S. Lewis doeinspirationalmean God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature. C. S. Lewis horseteachingson He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them. C. S. Lewis coupleeyereligious You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. C. S. Lewis knowscan-dotrying We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment. C. S. Lewis envypassionself There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. C. S. Lewis errorsbelievefall We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely C. S. Lewis futuremeaningfulpast
