Top Quotes of CS lewis
- “We are what we believe we are.” – CS lewis
- “Forgiveness does not mean excusing.”- CS lewis
- “With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”- CS lewis
- “The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.”- CS lewis
- “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – CS lewis
Famous Quotes of CS lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: what! You too? I thought i was the only one.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.
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Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.
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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.
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There is no uncreated being except god. God has no opposite.
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We regard god as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies, but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.
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We are not necessarily doubting that god will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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You must ask for god’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
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It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see god, for only the pure in heart want to.
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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.
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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of god. The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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The instrument through which you see god is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of god will be blurred.
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Relying on god has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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It cost god nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion.
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There are only 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.
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When you are arguing against god you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.
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The son of god became a man to enable men to become sons of god.
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It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with god.
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God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with him as if you were the only being he had ever created.
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If god had granted all the silly prayers i’ve made in my life, where should i be now?
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There is but one good; that is god. Everything else is good when it looks to him and bad when it turns from him.
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Though our feelings come and go, his love for us does not.
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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.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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We are what we believe we are.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
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The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.
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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Jesus christ did not say, go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.
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Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that i have just successfully defended in a public debate.
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It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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If you’re thinking of becoming a christian, i warn you, you’re embarking on something, which will take the whole of you.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Good english’ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.
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History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that i am now a walking and talking adult.
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If i find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that i was made for another world.
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All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is christ.
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To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.
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Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…
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A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
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When we christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making christianity unbelievable to the outside world.
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If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, i certainly don’t recommend christianity.
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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
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Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Faith in christ is the only thing to save you from despair.
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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If i find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that i was made for another world.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.
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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
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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.
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
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We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to christ.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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No good work is done anywhere without aid from the father of lights.
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