C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963).Wikipedia

Quotes by C.S. Lewis

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

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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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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

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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.

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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

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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.

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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