The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. C. S. Lewis loneliness conscious needs To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness. C. S. Lewis being-in-love beloved goes-on God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. C. S. Lewis fun people thinking Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle. C. S. Lewis prayer christian people You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God. C. S. Lewis god-love religious inspirational There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. C. S. Lewis care god men The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him. C. S. Lewis scotch forever men The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. C. S. Lewis uplifting happy happiness As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. C. S. Lewis men long thinking Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ C. S. Lewis affliction passion christ Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. C. S. Lewis wisdom dream love-you If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream. C. S. Lewis dream remember world To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.' C. S. Lewis humanity men heaven There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. C. S. Lewis self two people I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you. C. S. Lewis horse kings children Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. C. S. Lewis inspiration blessed faith If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house. C. S. Lewis prayer house order God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. C. S. Lewis pain speak christian It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud. C. S. Lewis grumbling bud growing-up When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever. C. S. Lewis self giving mean
