C. S. Lewis Quotes

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil.

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.

When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity.

The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

Our goal is self-transcendence

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.