C. S. Lewis Quotes and Sayings
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“The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.”
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
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“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.”
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“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
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“[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.”
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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
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“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.”
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“Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again”
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“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
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