C. S. Lewis Quotes

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.

The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Christian life means sacrifice.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.