Another “quiz” to help you discover how well you know if a quotation attributed to C.S. Lewis is by him or not. Here are 15 quotes I shared with some of the participants at the Inklings Fellowship retreat at Montreat College that was held April 4-6, 2025.
This video is meant to be a FUN way to address the serious issue that many quotations attributed to C.S. Lewis are NOT by him.
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Learn more about the book, THE MISQUOTABLE C.S. LEWIS
THE QUOTES EXPLORED:
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1. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
2. Humility is not thinking less
3. Perfect humility dispenses
4. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
5. “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.”
6. Integrity is doing the right thing
7. A myth is a lie
8. “The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men.”
9. “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.”
10. “Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”
11. “We read to know that we are not alone.”
12. To some, God is discoverable everywhere
13. “Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.”
14. “No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.”
15. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”