C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis) is simply a theological genius in my book. Mere Christianity? Excellent. The Screwtape Letters? Timeless. The Chronicles of Narnia? Meaningful. Prophets and apostles quote him frequently, and for good reason. He offers incredible insights into religion and personal spirituality. Here are 13 of my favorite C. S. Lewis proverbs, provided by the Twitter account @CSLewisDaily, that I would be totally fine with canonizing as scripture right now.
1. How to measure the strength of temptation
"We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means."#CSLewis
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) January 14, 2019
2. I want this slapped all over my living room in huge vinyl lettering
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."#CSLewis
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) January 13, 2019
3. Makes sense to me…
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.”#CSLewis
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) December 31, 2018
4. Being a true Christian just got more difficult
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” #CSLewis
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) January 7, 2019
5. God doesn’t necessarily care how “smart” you are
"Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.”#CSLewis
Mere Christianity— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) January 10, 2019
6. How to love more fully
"To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."#CSlewis
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) December 23, 2018
7. For when you always feel like you should be doing more
"God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.”#CSLewis
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) December 5, 2018
8. When you feel like God isn’t answering your prayers
“I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait."#CSLewis
Mere Christianity— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) December 2, 2018
9. Why do bad things happen to good people?
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”#CSLewis
The Problem of Pain pic.twitter.com/E9sGpzopE4— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) November 29, 2018
10. Something everyone, especially missionaries, needs to hear
"There is always some peace in having submitted to the right. Don’t spoil it by worrying about the results, if you can help it. It is not your business to succeed (no one can be sure of that) but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God."#CSLewis
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) November 19, 2018
11. Something to remember
“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”#CSLewis
The Weight of Glory— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) October 8, 2018
12. Sounds like a loving God to me
“Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.”#CSLewis | #Perelandra
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) September 25, 2018
13. YES, but also, YIKES!
“Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others… It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped in the bud. ” #CSLewis
— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) September 4, 2018
What’s your favorite C. S. Lewis Quote that we didn’t include here? let us know in the comments.
