Quotes By C. S. Lewis

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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

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

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...eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. Of course not all books are suitable for mealtime reading. It would be a kind of blasphemy to read poetry at table.

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When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start to go right they often go on getting better and better.

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Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

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"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. ... He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. ... You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

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We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis