We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis christian-inspirationalgodlymotivational The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. C. S. Lewis victorygoes-onmay A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. C. S. Lewis errorsinspirationchristian God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. C. S. Lewis first-lovesoullove-is You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? C. S. Lewis life-and-deathstrongbelieve Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right. C. S. Lewis exerciseanimalmen Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. C. S. Lewis dyingmenchrist You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. C. S. Lewis mayforgetinspirational Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself. C. S. Lewis sillymenthinking Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters. C. S. Lewis slaverymenpeople [God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop. C. S. Lewis faithmenthinking No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. C. S. Lewis soulmissingjoy I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. C. S. Lewis englandatheistnight The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. C. S. Lewis nonsensecommonjoy Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. C. S. Lewis mysteryconsciousnesswonder We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. C. S. Lewis goddoubtinspirational Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. C. S. Lewis campaignskingsenemy We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God. C. S. Lewis worship-musicpresence-of-godworship-god No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. C. S. Lewis yawninggriefwisdom To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. C. S. Lewis shouldworshiplove-you
