C. S. Lewis Quotes About Religion
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Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.
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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
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Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
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Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.
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It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
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For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.
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There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
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There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
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It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.
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Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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