C. S. Lewis Quotes

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

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  • Life
  • Reality
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• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  

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  • World
  • God

• The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

  

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• Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

  

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  • Life
  • God
  • Proud

• 'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)

  

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• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

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  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wishes

• Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

  

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  • Up
  • Time

• True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

  

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  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

  

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  • Up
  • God
  • Bad

• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

  

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  • Moment
  • Friendship
  • Born

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  

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  • Love
  • Power
  • Miracles

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

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  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

  

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  • World
  • Happy

• In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

  

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  • Justice
  • Moral
  • Charity

• Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

  

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• Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

  

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  • Why
  • Universe
  • Enemy

• The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

  

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  • Friendship
  • Expression
  • Would Be

• Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

  

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  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

  

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• It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

  

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  • Real
  • Darkness
  • Simplicity

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

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  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

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  • Black
  • Reading
  • Deep

• We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

  

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• But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

  

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  • God
  • Men
  • Mean