Selected quotes · 91
№ 51
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
C.S LewisFreedom
№ 52
“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
C.S LewisHappiness
№ 53
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
C.S LewisFriendship
№ 54
“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
C.S LewisFriendship
№ 55
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
C.S LewisJustice
№ 56
“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
C.S LewisWisdom
№ 57
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
C.S LewisWisdom
№ 58
“Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it. Just live it.”
C.S LewisAction
№ 59
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
C.S LewisHumility
№ 60
“To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God.”
C.S LewisFaith
№ 61
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
C.S LewisWisdom
№ 62
“Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.”
C.S LewisFaith
№ 63
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one'.”
C.S LewisFriendship
№ 64
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
C.S LewisFaith
№ 65
“It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it.”
C.S LewisWisdom
№ 66
“Christianity seems at first to be about morality, rules, guilt and virtue, yet it leads you out of that, into something beyond.”
C.S LewisJustice
№ 67
“If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”
C.S LewisWisdom
№ 68
“Friendship is unnecessary, it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
C.S LewisFriendship
№ 69
“If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't.”
C.S LewisWisdom
№ 70
“God is not deceived by the externals.”
C.S LewisFaith
№ 71
“Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.”
C.S LewisFaith
№ 72
“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.”
C.S LewisJustice
№ 73
“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.”
C.S LewisJustice
№ 74
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
C.S LewisCreativity
№ 75
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
C.S LewisResilience
№ 76
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
C.S LewisFaith
№ 77
“History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”
C.S LewisAction
№ 78
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
C.S LewisTime
№ 79
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
C.S LewisHappiness
№ 80
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.”
C.S LewisPhilosophy
№ 81
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
C.S LewisJustice
№ 82
“Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.”
C.S LewisHumility
№ 83
“Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
C.S LewisHappiness
№ 84
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
C.S LewisMindset
№ 85
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C.S LewisAction
№ 86
“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 LewisFaith
№ 87
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
C.S LewisFaith
№ 88
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth is aching' than to say 'My heart is broken'.”
C.S LewisAction
№ 89
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
C.S LewisHappiness
№ 90
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S LewisCourage
№ 91
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go to move forward.”
C.S LewisWisdom