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Love Quotes by C. S. Lewis

158 Love quotes by C. S. Lewis

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A decision to love is described as a deep promise that lasts beyond feelings, a choice that shapes a soul. The quotes say love is more than an emotion; it is a relentless, forgiving force that never tires, even when we stumble. They also link love to a divine presence that guides us through hardship.

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There seems no plan because it is all plan.

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Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

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

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Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

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The absent are easily refuted.

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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 Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

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Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

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Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

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

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

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

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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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Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as…

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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do…

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

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The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to…

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Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

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Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves…

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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

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Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth;…

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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial…

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If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again…

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Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in…

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A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.…

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On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can…

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The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made…

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We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and…

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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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Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have…

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

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Selfishness has never been admired.

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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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Obedience is the road to freedom.

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You cannot make men good by law.

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