C. S. Lewis Spiritual Quotes — Page 17

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.”

People Religious Religion

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it”

Voice Prayer Speech

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Spiritual

“If you have a religion it must be cosmic.”

Ifs Omnipotence

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Spiritual

“You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.”

Gone Found

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Spiritual

“A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.”

Spiritual Body Blessed

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Spiritual

“Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.”

Fall Heaven Earth

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Spiritual

“Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.”

Doe Prayer Flames

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Spiritual

“We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

World Pain Stupidity

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Spiritual

“Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection”

Fall Effort Perfection

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Spiritual

“One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.”

Mean Space Army

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Spiritual

“If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.”

Thinking Lines Pages

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Spiritual

“I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.”

Self Littles Use

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C. S. Lewis — Spiritual Quotes

C. S. Lewis Quotes