The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it. C. S. Lewis men If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone. C. S. Lewis firewaterhands In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church C. S. Lewis fearlesschurchneeds The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. C. S. Lewis morninginspirationaljobs I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? C. S. Lewis faithanswersreligion And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven. C. S. Lewis suggestionsforgivingsin I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject. C. S. Lewis dreadsubjectsspecial In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough. C. S. Lewis excuseinspirationalpeople Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. C. S. Lewis democracymenthinking Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. C. S. Lewis christianinspirationallife God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis religioushappinessinspirational Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. C. S. Lewis demisegodthinking Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. C. S. Lewis free-willeviljoy Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people C. S. Lewis redemptionimprovementpeople We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed. C. S. Lewis alivemindbelieve That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God. C. S. Lewis religiousmeanbelieve The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business. C. S. Lewis rightsnamesanimal Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.' C. S. Lewis miserycoldworld If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. C. S. Lewis wasting-timewastechurch Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever. C. S. Lewis true-or-falsegood-manyears
