C S Lewis Quotes

Biography: C. S. Lewis is known for his beloved fantasy series "The Chronicles of... more Biography: C. S. Lewis is known for his beloved fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia." A British writer and lay theologian, Lewis's work spanned fiction, Christian apologetics, and scholarly texts. He held academic positions at Oxford and Cambridge and was a close friend of fellow author J.R.R. Tolkien. less

"We read to know we are not alone.""You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.""To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.""Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.""Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being… there are legitimate expectations, but one must always make room for the fallibility of human nature.""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.""The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.""The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God""Forgiveness does not mean excusing""Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival""We do not want merely to see beauty...we want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it""There are only 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'""No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights""The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us""While we are actually subjected to them the pains and sorrows of life are despotic and monotonous; but retrospectively, the same troubles almost always turn into pleasurable memories or even funny stories""God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way""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.""God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.""You can make anything by writing.""Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

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