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Life Quotes by C. S. Lewis

80 Life quotes by C. S. Lewis

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Imagine yourself as a living house, with rooms for hopes and worries. Lewis’s words talk about a deep curiosity that makes us want to know how reality works, and about the pain that challenges a loving God. He also says that a desire we cannot satisfy here may point to a life beyond this one.

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Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

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Imagine yourself as a living house.

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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

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Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

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Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

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Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

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Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments…

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Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save…

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In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his…

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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life…

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We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with…

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The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like…

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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must…

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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall…

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There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are…

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A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in…

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To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife,…

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If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually…

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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which…

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Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something…

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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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To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,…

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Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there…

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“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also…

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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

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The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

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We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

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There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing…

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Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

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Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

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A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

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Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

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If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

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When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

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The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

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

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

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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