"The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian tea...
We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.
More C. S. Lewis quotes
"Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
"Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the so...
"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling...
"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier tha...
"[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not tak...
"But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in one person - then that person ...
"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
"A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how s...
"The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thin...
"The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured. And by the way, that is very important...
"You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind ...
"There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any ...
"Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are ...
"I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, ‘I’ve no use for all that stuff. But, mind y...