Quotes by C.S. Lewis

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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the ques...

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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

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When He talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be mo...

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God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

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I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

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Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body? And if so, why? If God’s goodness is inconsist...

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There may be two views about humans. But there's no two views about things that look like humans and aren't... But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or o...

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Now obviously all this--taking upon oneself to hate those whom one things God's enemies, avoiding the society of those one thinks wicked, judging our neighbors, thinking oneself "too good" for some of them (not in the snobbish way, which is a trivial...

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Badness is only spoiled goodness.

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I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; it adds to its commands "Thus saith the Lord", it lies, and lies dangerously.

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It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

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Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

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I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target ...

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They say an unhappy man wants distractions-something to take him out of himself. Only as a dog-tired man wants an extra blanket on a cold night; he'd rather lie there shivering than get up and find one.

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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In a WWII radio talk, Lewis champions the well-established idea that actions lead emotions. Although he is making the point with respect to love, he illustrates with the opposite. The Germans hated the Jews, then acted on that. Because they did, thei...

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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

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