Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University.
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. – C.S. Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. – C.S. Lewis
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. – C.S. Lewis
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. – C.S. Lewis
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you. – C.S. Lewis
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. – C.S. Lewis
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. – C.S. Lewis
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. – C.S. Lewis
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. – C.S. Lewis
You can make anything by writing. – C.S. Lewis
You can’t know, you can only believe – or not. – C.S. Lewis
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. – C.S. Lewis
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. – C.S. Lewis
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. – C.S. Lewis
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. – C.S. Lewis
Crying is all right in its own 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
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival. – C.S. Lewis
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. – C.S. Lewis
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. – C.S. Lewis
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