C. S. Lewis — Spiritual Quotes

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C. S. Lewis Quotes

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.”

Men Moon Dirty

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.”

Men Home Animal

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Spiritual

“We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.”

Prayer Ought Lays

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Spiritual

“God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!”

Absolutes Extras

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Spiritual

“I want God, not my idea of God.”

Want Ideas

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Spiritual

“Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.”

Inspirational Nature Inspiring

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Spiritual

“If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.”

Thinking Christian Hints

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Spiritual

“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

Men Art Philosophy

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Spiritual

“We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.”

Want United

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Spiritual

“An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.”

Kings Husband Hunters

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Spiritual

“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”

Real God Faith

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Spiritual

“On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.”

Thinking Men Christian

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