Long Quotes by C. S. Lewis

38 Long quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis writes about the long road of belief with a blend of wit and solemnity. These thirty‑eight passages trace his thoughts on waiting, perseverance, and the timeless quest for meaning, perfect for readers who enjoy a thoughtful, measured pace.

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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

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I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

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Laziness means more work in the long run.

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

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Total war is the most humane in the long run.

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A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

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You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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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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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

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As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

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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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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

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A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

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All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being…

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For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and…

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I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle…

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If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of…

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Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As…

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We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough,…

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Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long…

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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for…

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Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered…

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In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are…

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What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,…

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All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you…

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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…

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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man…

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As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A…

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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.

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What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter…

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We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever…

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The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach…

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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird…

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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For…

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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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