“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.” ― C.S. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.” ― C.S. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. “To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. “A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ― C.S. “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” ― C.S.

He intends to come and live in it Himself.” ― C.S. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.” ― C.S.

“If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.” ― C.S. “ means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into… It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.” ― C.S.

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