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C. S. Lewis Quotes

C. S. Lewis quotes about life

British Author, Writer November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963

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C. S. Lewis quote: "That is one of the functions of art: to present what the..."
That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Thanks for my life, my cure, my breakfast - and my lesson."
Thanks for my life, my cure, my breakfast - and my lesson. C. S. Lewis
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just..."
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one..."
If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream. C. S. Lewis
My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin. C. S. Lewis
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "it is important early in life to acquire the power of reading..."
it is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. C. S. Lewis
That’s true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. C. S. Lewis
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in! C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he..."
Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'. C. S. Lewis
Jaweh is clearly not a Nature-God. He does not die and come to life each year as a true Corn-king should. He may give wine and fertility, but must not be worshipped with Bacchanalian or aphrodisiac rites. C. S. Lewis
now that the very name "space" seemed a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam. He could not call it 'dead'; he felt life pouring in at every moment. C. S. Lewis
This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life. C. S. Lewis
And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be." pg.89 C. S. Lewis

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