“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.” ― C.S. Lewis. Here are 40 Inspirational C.S. Lewis Quotes.
C.S. Lewis Quotes
1. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ― C.S. Lewis
2. “Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” ― C.S. Lewis
3. “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course, it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.” ― C.S. Lewis
4. “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.” ― C.S. Lewis
5. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ― C.S. Lewis
6. “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. Lewis
7. “I once read the sentence ‘I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache and about lying awake.’ That’s true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.” ― C.S. Lewis
8. “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. Lewis
9. “Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.” ― C.S. Lewis
10. “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ― C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis Quotes
11. “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. Lewis
12. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” ― C.S. Lewis
13. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” ― C.S. Lewis
14. “God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.” ― C.S. Lewis
15. “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. Lewis
16. “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. ” ― C.S. Lewis
17. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” ― C.S. Lewis
18. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” ― C.S. Lewis
19. “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.” ― C.S. Lewis
20. “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ― C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis Quotes
21. “Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.” ― C.S. Lewis
22. “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” ― C.S. Lewis
23. “I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?” ― C.S. Lewis
24. “But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.” ― C.S. Lewis
25. “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.” ― C.S. Lewis
26. “You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” said the Lion.” ― C.S. Lewis
27. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ― C.S. Lewis
28. “Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.” ― C.S. Lewis
29. “Friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.” ― C.S. Lewis
30. “It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.” ― C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis Quotes
31. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” ― C.S. Lewis
32. “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives” – C. S. Lewis
33. “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” ― C.S. Lewis
34. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis
35. “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” ― C.S. Lewis
36. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” – C. S. Lewis
37. “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” ― C.S. Lewis
38. “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.” – C. S. Lewis
39. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained” – C. S. Lewis
40. “Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.” – C. S. Lewis