You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. C. S. Lewis modernwisdomdoubt And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another. C. S. Lewis errorscuttingrace Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God. C. S. Lewis i-canusebelieve We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ. C. S. Lewis knowschristthinking You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? C. S. Lewis girlcountrythinking We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul. C. S. Lewis painopportunitymen No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed. C. S. Lewis differenceslightmen The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that. C. S. Lewis stylewantway The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. C. S. Lewis rightsreligionjesus Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. C. S. Lewis passionchristianpeople The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him. C. S. Lewis mournholinessmen The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. C. S. Lewis inspirationchristianteacher Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. C. S. Lewis painhurtboys Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you. C. S. Lewis narniasafekings Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. C. S. Lewis elementspraisejoy That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. C. S. Lewis judgingchristianmen And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper? C. S. Lewis pridedoorsmoving We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. C. S. Lewis guiltdoefacts We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other. C. S. Lewis partyrealwar Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you. C. S. Lewis individualityone-daywisdom
