22 Quotations by C.S. Lewis
- 1. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.
- 2. Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it ...
- 3. Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reali ...
- 4. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- 5. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- 6. In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from H ...
- 7. In peace we can make many of them ignore good and evil entirely; in danger, the issue is forced upon ...
- 8. In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y ...
- 9. It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort ...
- 10. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to f ...
- 11. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi ...
- 12. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence ...
- 13. Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
- 14. Selfishness has never been admired.
- 15. The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood ...
- 16. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he doe ...
- 17. The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the l ...
- 18. The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves ...
- 19. True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
- 20. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always tr ...
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