50 CS Lewis Quotes – His Very Best Quotes!
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CS LEWIS QUOTES
1 – You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis
2 – There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis
3 – Things never happen the same way twice. C. S. Lewis
4 – No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C. S. Lewis
5 – What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. C. S. Lewis
6 – People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often. C. S. Lewis
7- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
8 – Always try to use the language so as to make it quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. C. S. Lewis
9 – We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C. S. Lewis
10 – When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. C. S. Lewis
CS LEWIS QUOTES
11 – You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis
12 – You can’t know, you can only believe – or not. C. S. Lewis
13 – Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. C. S. Lewis
14 -Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself… C. S. Lewis
15 – If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it. C. S. Lewis
16 – If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis
17- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis
18 – Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours. C. S. Lewis
19 – Adventures are never fun while you’re having them. C. S. Lewis
20 – Do not dare not to dare. C. S. Lewis
CS LEWIS QUOTES
21 – What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. C. S. Lewis
22 – There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’ C. S. Lewis
23 – A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. C. S. Lewis
24 – 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
25 – 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
26 – Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. C. S. Lewis
27- Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. C. S. Lewis
28 – Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. C. S. Lewis
29 – The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis
30 – The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis
CS LEWIS QUOTES
31 – You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words. C. S. Lewis
32 – We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. C. S. Lewis
33 – Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. C. S. Lewis
34 – Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. C. S. Lewis
35 – Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis
36 – To love at all is to be vulnerable. C. S. Lewis
37- A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. C. S. Lewis
38 – Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? C. S. Lewis
39 – It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis
40 – 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. C. S. Lewis
CS LEWIS QUOTES
41 – Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. C. S. Lewis
42 – An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
43 – 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
44 – We are what we believe we are. C. S. Lewis
45 – You can make anything by writing. C. S. Lewis
46 – Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C. S. Lewis
47- 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
48 – A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. C. S. Lewis
49 – Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. C. S. Lewis
50 – It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. C. S. Lewis
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