Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. ✨ C. S. Le…

C. S. Lewis
1624 citations
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Thought
31

More Author Quotes

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God ' … ▶
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show … ▶
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes