C. S. Lewis
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Quotes from CS Lewis (Belfast, November 29, 1898 - Oxford, November 22, 1963): Writer, literary scholar, and theologian, probably best known for his works such as The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity
"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be …”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be …”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
“People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face …”
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November 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face …”
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“It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
“It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship”
Source: The Weight of Glory
Source: The Weight of Glory
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship”
Source: The Weight of Glory
Source: The Weight of Glory
"We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three results–Hatred–Terror–Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
"We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three results–Hatred–Terror–Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
“There (in the Psalms) ... I find an experience fully God-centered, asking of God no gift more urgently than His Presence, the gift of Himself, joyous to the highest degree, and unmistakably real”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“There (in the Psalms) ... I find an experience fully God-centered, asking of God no gift more urgently than His Presence, the gift of Himself, joyous to the highest degree, and unmistakably real”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
“Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate”
Source: The Efficacy of Prayer
Source: The Efficacy of Prayer
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
“Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate”
Source: The Efficacy of Prayer
Source: The Efficacy of Prayer
"The Lion was singing still. But now the song had once more changed. It was more like what we should call a tune, but it was also far wilder. It made you want to run and jump and climb. It made you want to shout”
Source: The Magician's Nephew
Source: The Magician's Nephew
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
"The Lion was singing still. But now the song had once more changed. It was more like what we should call a tune, but it was also far wilder. It made you want to run and jump and climb. It made you want to shout”
Source: The Magician's Nephew
Source: The Magician's Nephew
“It will never be lawful simply to ‘be ourselves’ until ‘ourselves’ have become sons of God”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
“It will never be lawful simply to ‘be ourselves’ until ‘ourselves’ have become sons of God”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
“St. Paul promises to those who love God not, as we should expect, that they will know Him, but that they will be known by Him (I Cor. viii. 3)”
Source: The Weight of Glory
Source: The Weight of Glory
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
“St. Paul promises to those who love God not, as we should expect, that they will know Him, but that they will be known by Him (I Cor. viii. 3)”
Source: The Weight of Glory
Source: The Weight of Glory
"We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is 'good,' because it is good, if 'bad' because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country”
Source: Letters: C.S. Lewis/Don Giovanni Calabria (Aug. 10, 1948)
Source: Letters: C.S. Lewis/Don Giovanni Calabria (Aug. 10, 1948)
November 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is 'good,' because it is good, if 'bad' because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country”
Source: Letters: C.S. Lewis/Don Giovanni Calabria (Aug. 10, 1948)
Source: Letters: C.S. Lewis/Don Giovanni Calabria (Aug. 10, 1948)
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them …”
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November 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them …”
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“I think that all Christians have found that he [satan] is very active near the altar or on the eve of conversion; worldly anxieties, physical discomforts, lascivious fancies, doubt, are often poured in at such junctures … But Grace is not frustrated”
Source: Letters of C.S. Lewis
Source: Letters of C.S. Lewis
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
“I think that all Christians have found that he [satan] is very active near the altar or on the eve of conversion; worldly anxieties, physical discomforts, lascivious fancies, doubt, are often poured in at such junctures … But Grace is not frustrated”
Source: Letters of C.S. Lewis
Source: Letters of C.S. Lewis
"We shall then first be true persons when we have suffered ourselves to be fitted into our places. We are marble waiting to be shaped, metal waiting to be run into a mould”
Source: ‘Membership’ in The Weight of Glory
Source: ‘Membership’ in The Weight of Glory
October 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"We shall then first be true persons when we have suffered ourselves to be fitted into our places. We are marble waiting to be shaped, metal waiting to be run into a mould”
Source: ‘Membership’ in The Weight of Glory
Source: ‘Membership’ in The Weight of Glory
“Gratitude exclaims, very properly: 'How good of God to give me this.' Adoration says: “What must be the quality of that Being whose far-off and momentary coruscations are like this!' One's mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun”
Source: Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer
Source: Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
“Gratitude exclaims, very properly: 'How good of God to give me this.' Adoration says: “What must be the quality of that Being whose far-off and momentary coruscations are like this!' One's mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun”
Source: Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer
Source: Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer
"Conditions … are not causes”
Source: The Allegory of Love
Source: The Allegory of Love
October 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
"Conditions … are not causes”
Source: The Allegory of Love
Source: The Allegory of Love
“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer …”
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October 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer …”
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“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness, and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride”
Source: Letters of C. S. Lewis
Source: Letters of C. S. Lewis
October 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness, and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride”
Source: Letters of C. S. Lewis
Source: Letters of C. S. Lewis
"Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts—to tell you what the real universe is like …”
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October 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
"Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts—to tell you what the real universe is like …”
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“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions …”
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October 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions …”
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"I think we must attack wherever we meet it the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
"I think we must attack wherever we meet it the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock