Quotes by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis (1898–1963) — Schriftsteller und Apologet · Anglikanisch · England
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) war ein britischer Literaturwissenschaftler, Schriftsteller und anglikanischer Apologet, der an den Universitäten Oxford und Cambridge lehrte. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch die Buchreihe „Die Chroniken von Narnia“ sowie theologische Schriften, in denen er die Vereinbarkeit von Vernunft und christlichem Glauben anhand bildhafter Vergleiche darlegte. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet er prägnante Zugänge zu Grundfragen des Glaubens, des Schmerzes und der Sehnsucht, wenngleich seine Ablehnung der biblischen Irrtumslosigkeit in konservativen Kreisen wiederholt kritisiert wurde.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Meaning & Identity, Love, Suffering & the Question of God, Discipleship
Quotes by C.S. Lewis
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it but because, by it, I see everything else.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
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But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created.
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A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
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It is not your business to succeed, but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God.
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Look for yourself and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be within us.
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We are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the form of a true human. The blows of His chisel that hurt us so much are also what make us perfect.
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Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
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Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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To love is to be vulnerable.
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There are no ordinary people; every neighbor carries eternal significance.
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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Our Lord's example is our example, not only on Calvary but in the workshop, on the road, in the crowd, amid interruptions, amid opposition, amid the lack of quiet and privacy, amid constant demands.
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God does not merely patch things up. Redeemed humanity will be something more glorious than unfallen humanity ever would have been.
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Nature is transient, and we shall outlive her. When all suns and nebulae have passed away, each of us will still be alive.
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Christ did not die for men because they were worth it, but because he is Love, and therefore loves infinitely.
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Glory means: the door on which we have been knocking all our lives will now be opened.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Of course one must take “sent to try us” the right way. God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn’t.
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The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.
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We must bring to God what is in us, not what ought to be in us. This 'ought' will keep us from speaking the truth. It will also keep us from feeling the truth, especially the truth about our pain.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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We should not ask ourselves for long whether we love our neighbour; we should act as if we did.
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The Son of God became man so that men might become children of God.
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When Christ died, he died for each of us individually, as though each of us were the only person in the world.
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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
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Until the Resurrection, the Cross still comes before the crown for us, and tomorrow is Monday morning.
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There are no ordinary people. They are immortals with whom we joke, work, are married, casually dismiss, and exploit.
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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
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