“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to
another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
― C.S. Lewis
“You don't have a
soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
― C.S. Lewis
“We read to know that
we are not alone.”
― C.S. Lewis
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to
worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word,
'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
~C. S. Lewis
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to
go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian
standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or
reading Plato in a state of pride.
~C. S. Lewis
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be
too careful of his reading.
~C. S. Lewis
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to
worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word
'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
~C. S. Lewis
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth
and you get neither.
~C. S. Lewis
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable?
Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
~C. S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of
every virtue at the testing point.
~C. S. Lewis
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
~C. S. Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid
and durable happiness there is in our lives.
~C. S. Lewis
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
~C. S. Lewis
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say
'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you
want to talk about something really infinite.
~C. S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather
to make man a more clever devil.
~C. S. Lewis
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
~C. S. Lewis
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about
originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth
(without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine
times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
~C. S. Lewis
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
~C. S. Lewis
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long
enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of
infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
~C. S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of
every virtue at the testing point.
~C. S. Lewis
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