| 67 Famous Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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”
God Quotes |
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“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”
God Quotes |
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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.”
Joy Quotes |
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
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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.”
Universe Quotes |
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“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
Affection Quotes |
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
Age Quotes |
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“When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes”
Catholicism Quotes |
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“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.”
Change Quotes |
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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.”
Christianity Quotes |
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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.”
Christianity Quotes |
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“Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage”
Christianity Quotes |
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“The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.”
Church Quotes |
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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.”
Comfort Quotes |
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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
Courage Quotes |
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“The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection”
Doctrine Quotes |
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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”
Doubt Quotes |
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“Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.”
Dreams Quotes |
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
Experience Quotes |
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“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
Faith Quotes |
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“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”
Foresight Quotes |
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“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country”
Fortune Quotes |
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“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
Friends Quotes |
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“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
Friendship Quotes |
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Goals Quotes |
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C.S. Lewis Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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