C. S. Lewis Quotes

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

C. S. Lewis

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

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I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - Never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?

C. S. 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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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

C. S. Lewis

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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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

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.

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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.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

C. S. Lewis

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

C. S. Lewis