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Inspirational Quotes by C. S. Lewis

207 Inspirational quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis says all that are in Hell choose it, making it a matter of personal choice. He describes translation as a test of truly understanding one’s own meaning. He also advises to shine not for personal glory, but so that others can see Him through you.

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History is a story written by the finger of God.

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The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

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The absent are easily refuted.

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Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

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It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

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There seems no plan because it is all plan.

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Human intellect is incurably abstract.

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I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

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Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

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Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

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Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

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It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

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God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

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I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

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We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

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If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in…

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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as…

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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

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You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

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I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like…

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The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

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All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure…

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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

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The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And…

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What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own…

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The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day…

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The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to…

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“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself…

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Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No…

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The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the…

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Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

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Obedience is the road to freedom.

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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

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For Narnia and for Aslan!

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Autumn is really the best of the seasons

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Selfishness has never been admired.

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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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In worship, God imparts himself to us.

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Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

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