36 quotes by C. S. Lewis

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” — C. S. Lewis

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““If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is…we were made for another world.”” — C. S. Lewis

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“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” — C. S. Lewis

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“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” — C. S. Lewis

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different.” — C. S. Lewis

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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.” — C. S. Lewis

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“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — C. S. Lewis

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“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” — C. S. Lewis

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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” — C. S. Lewis

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“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'” — C. S. Lewis

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“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” — C. S. Lewis

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“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” — C. S. Lewis

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“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” — C. S. Lewis

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