Joy Quotes by C.S. Lewis

19 Joy quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis offers 19 thoughtful musings on joy, weaving imagination with moral depth. His warm, reflective voice invites readers to consider how joy intertwines with purpose and the stories we tell ourselves.

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“Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.”

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“I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief…

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“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

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“It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.”

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“The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.”

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“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are…

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“Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that…

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“All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to…

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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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“Everything becomes more and more itself. Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness; but your…

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“enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if…

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“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the joy is not complete until it is expressed. It is not…

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“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as…

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“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward … promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires…

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“The sensualist, I'll allow ye, begins by pursuing a real pleasure, though a small one. His sin is the less. but the…

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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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“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy,…

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“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its…

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“I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside…

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“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a…

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“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es…

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“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could…

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“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.…

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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

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“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are…

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