C.S. Lewis Quotes on How Humans Relate to God
21. “These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear things about ourselves and the universe we live in.” — Mere Christianity
22. “It is the law of the natural universe that no being can exist on its own resources. Everyone, everything is hopelessly indebted to everyone and everything else.” — The Grand Miracle
23. “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.” — Mere Christianity
24. “. . . no natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God’s hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.” – a character in The Great Divorce
25. “For change is not progress unless the core remains unchanged. A small oak grows into big oak: if it became a beech, that would not be growth, but mere change.” — The Grand Miracle
26. “You don’t know in advance whether God is going to set you to do something difficult or painful, or something that you will quite like; and some people of heroic mold are disappointed when the job doled out to them turns out to be something quite nice. But you must be prepared for the unpleasant things and the discomforts.” — God in the Dock
27. “Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator . . . We are not merely imperfect creators who must be improved: we are, as Newman said, rebels who must lay down our arms.” — The Problem of Pain
28. “. . . the only thing one can usually change in one’s situation is oneself. And yet one can’t change that either—only ask Our Lord to do so, keeping on meanwhile with one’ s sacraments, prayers, and ordinary rule of life.” — Letters to an American Lady
29. “Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth ‘thrown in’: aim at Earth and you will get neither.” — Mere Christianity
30. “Human will becomes truly creative and truly our own when it is wholly God’ s, and this one of the many senses in which he that loses his soul shall find it.” — The Problem of Pain
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