Inspirational Quotes by C. S. Lewis

207 Inspirational quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis blends imagination with moral clarity. This extensive set of 207 quotes offers a steady stream of insight for anyone wrestling with purpose, belief, or everyday resolve.

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Nothing is really ours until we share it.

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A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

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Imagine yourself as a living house.

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Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

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Why should your heart not dance?

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To love is to be vulnerable…

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Man must endure his going hence.

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Obedience is the key that opens every door.

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We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

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It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

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You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

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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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At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

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'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

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We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become…

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No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

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This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know…

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In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they…

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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can…

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Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

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Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

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The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

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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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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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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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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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I am in love and out of it I will not go.

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To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

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You cannot make men good by law.

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The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

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Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

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I am a product [...of] endless books.

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Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

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You Too? I thought I was the only one.

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I came alive when I started loving you.

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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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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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