C. S. Lewis Quotes

“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:self satisfaction

“repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself,...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:self will

“As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:self God humility

“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:God thinking

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:strength humility

“When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:power

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

topic:friendship value

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:reality religion science

“courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:reality courage virtue

“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:religion war comfort

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