Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis Quotes

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for You have never had it.

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Joy is the serious business of heaven.

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

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We forgive, we mortify our resentment a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

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I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him Iaam ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I donaat accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic aa on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg aa or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

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I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

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

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I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, but those who keep silence hurt more.

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Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

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God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

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Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

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For the present is the point at which time touches eternity.

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If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

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Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

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You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself When I look into my own mind, I find that I do not love myself by thinking myself a dear old chap or having affectionate feelings. I do not think that I love myself because I am particularly good, but just because I am myself and quite apart from my character. I might detest something which I have done. Nevertheless, I do not cease to love myself. In other words, that definite distinction that Christians make between hating sin and loving the sinner is one that you have been making in your own case since you were born. You dislike what you have done, but you don't cease to love yourself. You may even think that you ought to be hanged. You may even think that you ought to go to the Police and own up and be hanged. Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

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Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

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Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

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Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in aim at earth, and you will get neither.

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