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C S Lewis Quotes
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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them (C S Lewis Quotes)
The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other (C S Lewis Quotes)
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don’t (C S Lewis Quotes)
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important (C S Lewis Quotes)
Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell (C S Lewis Quotes)
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life (C S Lewis Quotes)
Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places (C S Lewis Quotes)
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind (C S Lewis Quotes)
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old (C S Lewis Quotes)
I have seen landscapes... which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge (C S Lewis Quotes)
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice (C S Lewis Quotes)
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside (C S Lewis Quotes)
We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. No belief will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed (C S Lewis Quotes)
The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of (C S Lewis Quotes)
As long as he doesn’t convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance (C S Lewis Quotes)
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms (C S Lewis Quotes)
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not (C S Lewis Quotes)
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice (C S Lewis Quotes)
It’s like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer (C S Lewis Quotes)
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said (C S Lewis Quotes)
Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven (C S Lewis Quotes)
Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult (C S Lewis Quotes)
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it (C S Lewis Quotes)
The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love (C S Lewis Quotes)
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we’re so anxious not to see (C S Lewis Quotes)
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (C S Lewis Quotes)
We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise (C S Lewis Quotes)
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women (C S Lewis Quotes)
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago (C S Lewis Quotes)
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it (C S Lewis Quotes)