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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Irish novelist and poet

Lived from: 1898 - 1963

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 29 november 1898 Died: 22 november 1963

  • Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
  • 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.
  • What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
  • There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."
  • The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
  • 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.''
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • 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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  • And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
    Out of the Silent Planet (1938) Hyoi, p. 76
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  • Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
    The Great Divorce (1944)
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  • God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
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  • Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
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  • If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
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  • Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
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  • The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?
    Surprised by Joy (1955)
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  • They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
    That Hideous Strength (1945) Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2
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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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  • When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
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  • You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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  • You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59
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What are the most famous quotes from C. S. Lewis?

The two most famous quotes from C. S. Lewis are:

  • "And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."
  • "Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him."

When did C. S. Lewis live?

C. S. Lewis was born in 1898 and died in the year 1963.