"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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4/9/11

C.S. LEWIS Quotes

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~C.S. Lewis on Friendship

"A heavenly smell, warm and golden, as if from all the most delicious fruit and flowers of the world, was coming up to them from somewhere ahead." ~C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." ~C. S. Lewis

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." ~C. S. Lewis

"But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees." ~C.S. Lewis

"Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign…" ~C.S. Lewis

“Crying is all right in its 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, The Silver Chair

"Don't let your happiness depend upon something you may lose." ~C. S. Lewis

"Do not try to go over the tops of the great ice-mountains. Look out for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them." ~CS Lewis A Year with Aslan

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." ~CS Lewis 

"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities." ~C.S. Lewis

“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.” ~C.S. Lewis

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods." ~C. S. Lewis

“Friendship … has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gave value to survival.” ~C.S. Lewis on true friendship

"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

"Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauty of all the others." ~C.S. Lewis

"God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them." ~C. S. Lewis

"God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain." ~C S Lewis

"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." ~CS Lewis 

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead." ~C S Lewis

Lifted from Hearts and Mind Counselling

"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape." ~C.S. Lewis

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." ~C. S. Lewis

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself less." ~C.S. Lewis

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." ~CS Lewis 

“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” -C. S. Lewis

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” ~C.S. Lewis

"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." ~C S Lewis

"If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them." ~A Year with C. S. Lewis

"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." ~CS Lewis

"In the perfect and eternal world the Law will vanish. But the results of having lived faithfully under it will not." ~The C. S. Lewis Bible

"Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts…" ~The Screwtape Letters

"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching." ~C. S. Lewis

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different." ~CS Lewis

"It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it." ~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." ~C. S. Lewis

"Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery..." ~Aslan in The Magician's Nephew

"Life is too deep for words,so don't try to describe it, just live it." ~C. S. Lewis ‪

"Love is not wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity." ~CS Lewis

"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, Book: The Problem of Pain 

"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." ~CS Lewis

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." ~Clive Staples (CS) Lewis

"Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary." ~C.S. Lewis

"Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs." ~C.S. Lewis

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~CS Lewis

"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself." ~C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” ~C.S. Lewis

"Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, contentment, or even common sense." ~Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." ~C S Lewis

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." ~CS Lewis 

"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


"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~C.S Lewis 

"The task of a modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts." ~CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man

"The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he ‘likes’ them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds himself liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning." ~C.S. Lewis

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." ~C.S. Lewis

"This moment contains all moments." ~C.S. Lewis

"To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness in yourself." ~Aslan in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

"“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

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself: it is thinking of yourself less." ~C.S. Lewis

"We are what we believe we are." ~CS Lewis 

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God." ~C.S. Lewis

"We read to know we are not alone." ~C.S. Lewis

"What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week?" ~The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis

"What really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it…into a heavenly or a hellish creature" ~A Year with C. S. Lewis

"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." ~C.S. Lewis

"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

"When we write the truth, there isn’t always a grand group applauding. But write it we must.” ~C. S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." ~C. S. Lewis

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~C.S. Lewis

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." ~CS Lewis

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." ~C. S. Lewis

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." ~C. S. Lewis


OTHERS
Mainly from REACTORS:

"It's true...when I started praying for my enemies...they leave me alone...when you pray in front of them...they run." ~Ann Mitchell Ingersoll

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