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C.S. Lewis
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ...
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out t...
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no...
“You can make anything by writing.”
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to te...
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or trut...
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep ...
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requ...
“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”
“God will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good socie...
“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you a...
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things whi...
“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 ...
“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in be...
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt...
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of...
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in ou...
“You can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.”
“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
“The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been gi...
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age ...
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our ...
“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if ther...
“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to ...
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve lik...
“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. ...
“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God a...
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we wer...
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultima...
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other...
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe...
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incogni...
“For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything...
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean;...
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen su...
“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a d...
