C.S. Lewis Quotes

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

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Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

C.S. Lewis

Though our feelings come and go, Godís love for us does not.

C.S. Lewis

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

C.S. Lewis

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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

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You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

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Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation

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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them

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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

C.S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis