C. S. Lewis Want Quotations

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

I don't want to hold you hand!

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

I want God, not my idea of God.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.