Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. “ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself it is thinking of yourself less.” ― C.S. “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” ― C.S. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” ― C.S. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.” ― C.S. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.” ― C.S. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist’s shop.” ― C.S. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” ― C.S. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” ― C.S. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. “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.” ― C.S. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” ― C.S. “God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” ― C.S. “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.” ― C.S. “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 Quotes on God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity If I missed a great quote, be sure to leave it in a comment! C.S. Lewis’s legacy and I thought I would share some of his best quotes from his most famous works, along with some extended excerpts compiled from my personal reading and online research. Last year marked the 50th year of his death, and in honor of C.S. His apologetic work Mere Christianityremains a top 5 apologetic for the Christian faith, while his children’s books The Chronicles of Narnia continue to teach the Christian faith in a powerful way. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), former Oxford Professor, Christian apologist, lay theologian of now legendary status.
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