Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
C. S. LEWISWe never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
-
-
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
C. 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. LEWIS -
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. 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. LEWIS -
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LEWIS -
She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
C. S. LEWIS -
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
C. S. LEWIS -
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
C. S. LEWIS -
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
C. S. LEWIS -
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
C. S. LEWIS -
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. LEWIS -
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. LEWIS -
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C. S. LEWIS -
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. LEWIS -
Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
C. S. LEWIS