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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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The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God."
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has..."
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking..."
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your..."
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. C. S. Lewis
At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. C. S. Lewis
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of..."
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have..."
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that..."
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of..."
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis
Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them? Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there. C. S. Lewis
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot from their faces like barbed lightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expression could easily be mistaken for ferocity. C. S. Lewis

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