C. S. Lewis Spiritual Quotes — Page 19

C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.”

Different Might Bears

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Spiritual

“I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.”

Thinking Happiness Awkward

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Spiritual

“The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.”

People Men Asking

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Spiritual

“A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.”

Christian Life Is Begin Again

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Spiritual

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.”

Christian Wisdom Blessed

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“He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.”

Men Christian Order

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“Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.”

People Persons Faults

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Spiritual

“Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.”

Share Fellows Traveller

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Spiritual

“Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.”

Want Ifs Worry

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“I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.”

Thinking Evil Selfish

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“I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)”

Land Promise Atmosphere

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“Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.”

World Pain Wake Up

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C. S. Lewis — Spiritual Quotes

C. S. Lewis Quotes