200+ "Cs Lewis" Quotes And Sayings

C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1898. He was educated at Oxford University, where he met J.R.R. Tolkien, who was later to become his closest friend Read more

After completing his studies at Oxford, he worked for the BBC in London before returning to England in 1930 to join the staff of the Oxford Magazine. Lewis's first publications were children's stories for the magazines The Oxford Mail and The Christian Leader, but it was his second book, Out of the Silent Planet (1938), which brought him international fame. It was followed by The Pilgrim's Regress (1933), The Screwtape Letters (1942), and The Great Divorce (1945).

All three books won Lewis immediate acclaim when they were published and were to be his best-known works until the publication of Mere Christianity in 1950. He continued writing prolifically throughout his life, publishing books on a range of subjects including science fiction, apologetics, poetry, allegory, literary criticism, theology, and Christian apologetics.

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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even 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. To love is to be vulnerable. C.s. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for...
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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. C.s. Lewis
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan...
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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 there isn't any Narnia. C.s. Lewis
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings...
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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. C.s. Lewis
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly....
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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. C.s. Lewis
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I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you. C.s. Lewis
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite...
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. C.s. Lewis
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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." .. It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude. . C.s. Lewis
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Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.. In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.. Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away. C.s. Lewis
In God there is no hunger that needs to be...
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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. C.s. Lewis
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C.s. Lewis
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you...
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed. C.s. Lewis
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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. C.s. Lewis
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own, ' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. C.s. Lewis
The rule of the universe is that others can do...
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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. C.s. Lewis
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We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. . C.s. Lewis
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out...
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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)... C.s. Lewis
You can never get a cup of tea large enough...
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.s. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no...
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. C.s. Lewis
God allows us to experience the low points of life...
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. C.s. Lewis