C. S. Lewis Spiritual Quotes — Page 10

C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.”

World Christian Prayer

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?”

People Doe Our World

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“Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.”

Lying Action

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“We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.”

Persons Scripture

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“A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.”

Men Essentials Recovery

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“In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.”

Heart Voice Silence

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“Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.”

Race Silence Achievement

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“Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.”

Running Machines Fuel

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“When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.”

Secret Listening Intellectual

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“I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.”

Feelings Insecurity Cheerful

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“To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'”

Men Heaven Humanity

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“And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.”

Two Humble Silly

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C. S. Lewis — Spiritual Quotes

C. S. Lewis Quotes