C. S. Lewis Quotes — Page 26

Writer, Scholar

Optimistic

“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.”

Want Facts Want U

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Angry

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”

Heart Food Easter

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Courageous

“Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.”

Men Animal Exercise

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Love

“God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.”

Attention Lines Leisure

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Motivated

“The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”

May Goes On Victory

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Hopeful

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!”

Real Country Home

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Thoughtful

“Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

Thinking Mean Faces

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Philosophical

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

War God Ambition

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Confident

“No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly”

Mind Needs Doe

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Confident

“You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.”

People Thinking Impression

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Philosophical

“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”

Christian Inspiration Errors

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Angry

“The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.”

Political Evil Worship

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