C. S. Lewis Quote Explained: We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

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All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

Action
Lying

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Afflictions are… if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

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Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

Christ
Dying

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You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

Afflictions are… if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give.

I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

We’re either going to save the world or no one will be saved.

The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.

It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end has come.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

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