We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God. 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-heart hurt love 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 taken belief mind 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 training world thinking Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. C. S. Lewis ill-tempered show-me shows 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 christian god depression Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him. C. S. Lewis made knows lying Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis army bravery courage We meet no ordinary people in our lives. C. S. Lewis our-lives ordinary people Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. C. S. Lewis ready moments Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. C. S. Lewis valleys grief long 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 mistake sleep motivational 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 prayer christian believe 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 broken offering heart 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 mistake home father 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 theologian christian god 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 tests real dirty Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. C. S. Lewis risk tests real 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 sake doe men 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 wisdom christian thinking
