Quotes C. S. Lewis - page 14
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Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
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If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.
All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.
I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.
You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts
