C. S. Lewis Quotes

• Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can’t really get rid of it.

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  Topics in Religion

• By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

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  Topics in Religion

• A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

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  Topics in Religion

• Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

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  Topics in Religion

• God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than he is of any other slacker.

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  Topics in God

• There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to him and bad when it turns from him.

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  Topics in God

• Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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  Topics in God

• It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of his presence.

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  Topics in God

• He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

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  Topics in God

• We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

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  Topics in God

• If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

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  Topics in God

• No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know him can be saved by him.

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  Topics in God, Spirituality

• Something of God… flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

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  Topics in God

• In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

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  Topics in God

• God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

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  Topics in God

• We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.

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  Topics in God

• He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

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  Topics in Love

• Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

C. S. Lewis (165)

Birth:	29th November, 1898
Death:	22nd November, 1963
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Broadcaster, Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet

About

Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland. He was an Irish novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist, broadcaster and scholar. He held academic positions at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. Lewis's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage, TV, radio, and cinema. In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Lewis was honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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