“But there is something about this endless examining, quite apart from the labour, which bothers me. It sets me wondering about the whole system under which you, as well as we, now live… This of course is what Democratic education means – give them all an equal start and let the winners show their form. Hence Equality of Opportunity in practice mean ruthless Competition during those very years which, I can’t help feeling, nature meant to be free and frolicsome. Can it be good, from the age of 10 to the age of 23, to be always preparing for an exam, and always knowing that your whole worldly future depends on it: and not only knowing it, but perpetually reminded of it by your parents and masters? Is this the way to breed a nation of people in psychological, moral, and spiritual health? (N.B. Boys are now taught to regard Ambition as a virtue. I think we shall find that up to the XVIIIth Century, and back into Pagan times, all moralists regarded it as a vice and dealt with it accordingly).”

-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 17

“Our regeneration is a slow process. As Charles Williams says there are three stages: (1.) The Old Self on the Old Way. (2.) The Old Self on the New Way. (3.) The New Self on the New Way.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 141

“My idea is that unless one has to qualify oneself for a job the only sensible reason for studying anything is that one has a strong curiousity about it. And if one has, one can’t help studying it. I don’t see any point in attending lectures etc with some general notion of ‘self-improvement’ – unless, as I say, one finds it fun… I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life’s short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 96

“But I think you are already in the meshes of the net! The Holy Spirit is after you. I doubt if you’ll get away!”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 76

“Obedience is the key to all doors: feelings come (or don’t come) and go as God pleases. We can’t produce them at will and mustn’t try.”

-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 69

“But the New Testament does not envisage solitary religion: some kind of regular assembly for worship and instruction is everywhere taken for granted in the Epistles. So we much be regular practising members of the Church… Some find it more natural to approach God in solitude: but we must go to church as well. Others find it easier to approach Him thro’ the services: but they must practice private prayer and reading as well.”

-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 68

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“For the good life as (I suppose) you and I conceive it – independence, calling one’s house one’s castle, saying ‘Mind your own business’ to impertinent people, resisting bribes and threats as a matter of course, culture, honour, courtesy, un-assertiveness, the ease and elbow-room of the mind – all this is no natural endowment of the animal Man, but the fine flower of a privileged class [who have] a guilty conscience about their privileges… But then, the moment you try to spread this good life you find yourself removing the very conditions of it both from the few and from the many, in other words for all. (The simplest case of all is when you say ‘Here is a beautiful solitude – let us bring charabanc-loads of the poor townsmen to enjoy it’: i.e. let it cease to be a beautiful solitude). The many, merely by being the many, annihilate the goals as soon as they reach them: as in this case of education that I started with.”

-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 18

“I had not thought of it before but it might be, as you say, that the decay of serious male friendship has results unfavourable to male religion. One can’t be sure, though, because, if more women than men respond to religion, after all more women than men seem to respond to everything. Aren’t they much more easily stirred up than we in all directions? Isn’t it always easier to get female members for anything you are getting up?”

-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 20

“The danger of radical individualism can be clearly seen in this phrase from verse 2 [1 Cor. 2:2]: ‘not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.’ I grew up in a church which though it was the responsibility of the church to preach the gospel every Sunday, with an invitation every Sunday. And why? Because that church assumed that preaching ‘Christ and Him crucified’ was only about getting souls into heaven and nothing more. And because Paul’s words were taken in a truncated way, this gospel was limited to the salvation of invisible souls after they depart from this world. This gospel had little to say about life here on earth.”
-Douglas Wilson, Heaven Misplaced, page 50