C. S. Lewis Quotes

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C. S. Lewis

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 29, 1898

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

C. S. Lewis

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

C. S. Lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

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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.

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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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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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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.

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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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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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

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