Explore Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

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.

You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

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.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.