Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old C.s. Lewis quotes, C.s. Lewis sayings, and C.s. Lewis proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors. C.S. Lewis
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In the author's mind there bubbles up every now and then the material for a story. For me, it invariably begins with mental pictures.C.S. Lewis
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Affection is the most instinctive, in that sense the most animal, of the loves; its jealousy is proportionately fierce. It snarls and hares its teeth like a dog whose food has been snatched away.C.S. Lewis
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.C.S. Lewis
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Affection produces happiness if—and only if— there is common sense and give and take and 'decency.' In other words, only if something more, and other, than Affection is added. The mere feeling is not enough. . . . There is no disguising the fact that this means goodness; patience, self-denial, humility, and the continual intervention of a far higher sort of love than Affection, in itself, can ever be. That is the whole point. If we try to live by Affection alone, Affection will 'go bad on us.'C.S. Lewis
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What the devil loves is that vague cloud of unspecified guilt feeling or unspecified virtue by which he lures us into despair or presumption. 'Details, please?' is the answer.C.S. Lewis
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All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, hut by their own, and all men therefore arc conscious of guilt.C.S. Lewis
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Autumn is really the best of the seasons, and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of lifeC.S. Lewis
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Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.C.S. Lewis
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The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.C.S. Lewis
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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.C.S. Lewis
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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.C.S. Lewis
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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
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.C.S. Lewis
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You can make anything by writing.C.S. Lewis
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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 any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.C.S. Lewis
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him.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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.C.S. Lewis
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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.C.S. Lewis
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.C.S. Lewis
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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up.C.S. Lewis
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Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not. C.S. Lewis
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.C.S. Lewis
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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.C.S. Lewis
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A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.C.S. Lewis
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It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.C.S. Lewis
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Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making.C.S. Lewis
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We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.C.S. Lewis
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.C.S. Lewis
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