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C. S. Lewis Quotes

C. S. Lewis quotes

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

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In a WWII radio talk, Lewis champions the well-established idea that actions lead emotions. Although he is making the point with respect to love, he illustrates with the opposite. The Germans hated the Jews, then acted on that. Because they did, their loathing was intensified by their own actions. C. S. Lewis
God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down. C. S. Lewis
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love... C. S. Lewis
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. C. S. Lewis
It was likely, then that this—-this stumbling walk on a wet night across a ploughed field-—meant death. Death—-the thing one had always heard of (like love), the thing the poets had written about. So this was how it was going to be. But that was not the main point. C. S. Lewis
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word 'love' and look on things as if man were the centre of them. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor;..."
Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not."
Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not. C. S. Lewis
…People are often worried. They are told they ought to love God. They cannot find any such feeling in themselves. What are they to do? The answer is the same as before. Act as if you did. Do not sit trying to manufacture feelings. Ask yourself, ‘If I were sure that I loved God, what would I do?’ When you have found the answer, go and do it.” C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis
While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's..."
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear,..."
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. C. S. Lewis
Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "There might be things more terrible even than losing someone..."
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility..."
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. C. S. Lewis

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