All C. S. LEWIS Quotes about “Giving”

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.”
“There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.”
“I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.”
“God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?”
“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.”
“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.”
“You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.”
“To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.”
“God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.”
“God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.”
“Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want”
“A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”

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