“Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.”
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Famous C. S. Lewis Quotes
“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”
Source: The Four Loves
Source: Joyful Christian
Source: God in the Dock
“The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.”
Source: Selected Literary Essays
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works
“The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us”
“Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
“A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist”
“If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!”
“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best”
Source: Mere Christianity
“The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study
“We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The longest way round is the shortest way home”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.”
“My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.”
“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“There seems no plan because it is all plan.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Source: A Grief Observed
Source: Mere Christianity
“If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.”
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition
“If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Selfishness has never been admired.”
Source: Mere Christianity