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Portrait of C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

(1898–1963) Writer

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C. S. Lewis was a writer.

Quick Facts About C. S. Lewis

Born: November 29, 1898
Died: November 22, 1963
Profession: Writer

About C. S. Lewis

His full name was Clive Staples Lewis. He taught English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1925 to 1954 and at Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1954 to 1963. In addition to his academic work, he wrote many popular books, most famously the seven‑book Chronicles of Narnia series.

Quotes by C. S. Lewis · Page 3

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

Christian humility

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Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Enemy

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The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

Amish

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

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Friends are seldom found; they are made.

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The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

Journey

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Selfishness has never been admired.

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We must get over wanting to be needed.

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Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Desire

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We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

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By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

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I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

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All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

America

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Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

Moments

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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

America freedom

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As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Action

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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…

Church

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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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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Future

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Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a…

Body

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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

Blessed

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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…

Christian love

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For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

Ceremony

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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with…

Belief

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Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral…

Asceticism

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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him…

Animal

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Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some…

Animal

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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…

After death

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We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it.…

Art

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You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.…

Choices

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Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in…

Action

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Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from…

Charity

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What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the…

Bad dream

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A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things…

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally…

Character

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... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and…

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All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled,…

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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.…

Choices

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Man has got to take charge of Man… Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has…

Brain

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C. S. Lewis by topic

Inspirational (207) Men (166) Love (158) Religion (106) World (97) Thinking (92) People (86) Life (80) Time (78) Christian (77) Christianity (72) God (67) Christ (53) Giving (51)