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List of C. S. Lewis Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 2028 inspiring quotes by C. S. Lewis.

About C. S. Lewis

  • Born: November 29, 1898
  • Died: November 22, 1963
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean i should wash my teeth in church.
    Prayer Mean Church
    There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
    Differences Church Vices
    Some people write heavily, some write lightly. i prefer the light approach because i believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. there is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
    Believe Writing Light
    Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. but we must remember that neither paul nor apollos gives the increase.
    Spiritual Giving Awakening
    Before god closed in on me, i was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. but i feel my decision was not so important. i was the object rather than the subject in this affair.
    Decision Choices Important
    I would not know how to advise a man how to write. it is a matter of talent and interest. i believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.
    Believe Writing Men
    A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. the liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the gospel are responsible.
    Religious People Church
    The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. by that i mean, no part of you is outside the action.
    Mean Action Compelled
    If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. the same is true of christianity.
    Writing Men Chemistry
    The christian claim is: nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending jesus to spread his message. this is about as remarkable a claim as could be stated, and yet it is tossed out lightly. christians seem to imagine that "god did it" is as plausible as the natural explanation that stories grow with the retelling. the christian has the burden of proof, and it's an enormous burden given this enormous claim.
    Christian Jesus Imagine
    The enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. the enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.
    Men Elephants Design
    The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.
    Caring Men Two
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