We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. C. S. Lewis broken-hearthurtlove They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out. C. S. Lewis takenbeliefmind If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad. C. S. Lewis trainingworldthinking Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. C. S. Lewis ill-temperedshow-meshows Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C. S. Lewis christiangoddepression Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him. C. S. Lewis madeknowslying Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis armybraverycourage We meet no ordinary people in our lives. C. S. Lewis our-livesordinarypeople Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. C. S. Lewis readymoments Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. C. S. Lewis valleysgrieflong You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either. C. S. Lewis mistakesleepmotivational I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. C. S. Lewis prayerchristianbelieve We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it. C. S. Lewis brokenofferingheart Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home. C. S. Lewis mistakehomefather Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. C. S. Lewis instruments He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only. C. S. Lewis theologianchristiangod The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. C. S. Lewis testsrealdirty Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. C. S. Lewis risktestsreal Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. C. S. Lewis sakedoemen If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. C. S. Lewis wisdomchristianthinking
