C.S. Lewis Quotes II

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
 
"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
 
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Too easily pleased

If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is not part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. 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. We are far too easily pleased.
C. S. Lewis inThe Weight of Glory​
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"Reach for heaven and you get Earth thrown in; reach for Earth and you get neither..."

~Mere Christianity
 
"The more often a man feels without acting, the less he`ll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he`ll be able to feel."
 
"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right."
 
"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin."
 
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The inexcusable bit

"If you had a perfect excuse you would not need forgiveness; if the whole of your action needs forgiveness then there was no excuse for it. But the trouble is that what we call "asking God's forgiveness" very often really consists in asking God to accept our excuses. What leads us into this mistake is the fact that there usually is some amount of excuse, some "extenuating circumstances." We are so very anxious to point these out to God (and to ourselves) that we are apt to forget the really important thing; that is, the bit left over, the bit which the excuses don't cover, the bit which is inexcusable but not, thank God, unforgivable.

…What we have got to take to him is the inexcusable bit, the sin. We are only wasting time by talking about all the parts which can (we think) be excused. When you go to a doctor you show him the bit that is wrong—say, a broken arm. It would be a mere waste of time to keep on explaining that your legs and eyes and throat are all right. You may be mistaken in thinking so; and anyway, if they are really all right, the doctor will know that.

C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, ""On Forgiveness"" (1947), quoted in The Quotable Lewis by Jerry Root and Wayne Martindale (Tyndale) p 220"[/FONT]
 
"There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God `Thy will be done` and those to whom God will say `Thy will be done."
 
"We all want progress, but if you`re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
 
"You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it."
 
Into the Wardrobe said:
"You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it."
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Love that quote jules its fitting for what i am going thru right now

God does not alter peoples character by Choice he can and will alter them but only if we let him. _God in the Dock
 
[FONT=Times New Roman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] "Those who suffer the same things from the same people for the same Person can scarcely not love each other." C. S. Lewis
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"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."
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"May God's grace give you the necessary humility. Try not to think—much less, speak—of their sins. One's own are a much more profitable theme! And if on consideration, one can find no faults on one's own side, then cry for mercy: for this must be a most dangerous delusion.
C.S. Lewis
 
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
 
"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be `given` in the facts of experience."
 
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