C. S. Lewis on change
C. S. Lewis93 quotes“I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.”
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis The death of a beloved is an amputation.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis 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. LewisC. S. Lewis Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
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