C. S. Lewis Quotes

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C. S. Lewis

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 29, 1898

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

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Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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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.

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

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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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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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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.

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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

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