Quotes By C.S. Lewis

"The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstacy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crqve would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an Obstacle to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with our firneds, a bath, or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home."
 
"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."
 
Another good one Carl!!! Thanks for it!

"Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is."
 
"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."
 
Here's another for ya.

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same storywhich is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
 
"Other than heaven, the only place where one`s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell."
 
"Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important."
 
"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."
 
"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be glorified at the expense of the rest."
 
"Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important."
 
"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in."
 
"The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about."
 
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