Some Wisdom From C. S. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were
precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased
to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection:
the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about
the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief,
but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
C. S. Lewis

"If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself."
C. S. Lewis

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
C. S. Lewis

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
C. S. Lewis

"He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself..."
C. s. Lewis

"Conquest is an evil productive of almost every other evil both to those who commit and to those who suffer it."
C. S. Lewis