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C S Lewis Inspirational Quotes (1191)

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The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
Carl Lewis
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we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.
C. S. Lewis
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, as Herbert says, fine nets and stratagems. God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
C. S. Lewis
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
C. S. Lewis
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You can't live your life through your children.
Carl Lewis
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If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.
Cynthia Lewis
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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
C. S. Lewis
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Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for to make them worth it.
C. S. Lewis
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Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
C. S. Lewis
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Fools! said the man, stamping his foot with rage. That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
C. S. Lewis
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You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.
C. S. Lewis
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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
C. S. Lewis
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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
C. S. Lewis
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Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.
C. S. Lewis
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
C. S. Lewis
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
C. S. Lewis
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I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him.
Carl Lewis
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C. S. Lewis
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I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.
C. S. Lewis
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You Too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
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If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
C. S. Lewis
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More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle
C. S. Lewis
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Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
Cecil Day-Lewis
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