C. S. Lewis — Spiritual Quotes

259 quotes · Writer, Scholar

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C. S. Lewis Quotes

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.”

People Mind Hate

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.”

Secret Church Listening

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Spiritual

“The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.”

Ideas Christian

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Spiritual

“We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.”

May Made

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Spiritual

“If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?”

People Religious Honest

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Spiritual

“Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.”

Self Artist Remember

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Spiritual

“We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist”

Temptation Needed

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Spiritual

“We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.”

Soul Body

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Spiritual

“Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

Looks Wish Ambition

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Spiritual

“Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.”

Believe God Tomorrow

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Spiritual

“The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.”

Views Essence

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Spiritual

“Why must holy places be dark places?”

Dark Holy

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