Eternal Quotes by C. S. Lewis

10 Eternal quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis weaves the eternal into stories of faith and imagination. This handful of ten quotes provides a brief window into his way of linking the divine with everyday wonder.

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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in…

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The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby,…

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In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

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Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition,…

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit…

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The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things…

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Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how…

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Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a…

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into…

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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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

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

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

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

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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…

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