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C.S. Lewis Quotes
Best Quotes by C.S. Lewis (Top 10)
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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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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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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If I discover within 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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We're 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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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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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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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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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.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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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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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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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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