200+ Quotes & Sayings By Cs Lewis

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.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the...
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us Unknown
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us Unknown
There is but one good
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There is but one good Unknown
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute Unknown
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There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view Unknown
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There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do Unknown
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A moderately bad man knows he is not very good Unknown
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Reason may win truths Unknown
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That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised Unknown
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A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village Unknown
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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth Unknown
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He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods Unknown
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Joy is not a substitute for sex Unknown
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I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment Unknown
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A man can’t be always defending the truth Unknown
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I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night Unknown
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We all have different languages Unknown
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And a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing Unknown
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very Unknown
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He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone Unknown
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Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue Unknown
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By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity Unknown
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We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment Unknown
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God knows our situation Unknown
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Images of the Holy easily become holy images -- sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example Unknown