QUOTATION: Life with God

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but Peace in difficulties.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Tribulation

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Children

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

--C. S. Lewis

QUOTATION: God the Artist

Remember that He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted.

--C. S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Pride

Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, contentment, or even common sense.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Power

Those who begin worshipping power soon worship evil.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Living for the Next World

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Pride

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If every one else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.

--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

QUOTATION: God's Love of Us

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

-- C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Not Feeling Brave

You needn't worry about not feeling brave. Our Lord didn't--see the scene in Gethsemane. How thankful I am that when God became man He did not choose to become a man of iron nerves; that would not have helped weaklings like you and me nearly so much.

--C.S. Lewis, Letters of C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Silly Prayers

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: What God Wants

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Evangelization

He who converts his neighbour has performed the most practical Christian-political act of all.

--C.S. Lewis, “Meditation on the Third Commandment”, God in the Dock

QUOTATION: Pride

The devil laughs. He is perfectly content to see you becoming chaste and brave and self-controlled provided, all the time, he is setting up in you the Dictatorship of Pride - just as he would be quite content to see your chilblains cured if he was allowed, in return, to give you cancer.

--C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

QUOTATION: Fighting the Current

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

--C. S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Why Bad Things Happen

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Freedom from God

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

--C. S. Lewis

QUOTATION: History

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: If Virtue Comes Easy to You...

If you are a nice person—if virtue comes easily to you—beware! Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

--C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: God is Our Fuel

A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

--C. S. Lewis