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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

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
– C.S. Lewis

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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
– C.S. Lewis

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

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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

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Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
– C.S. Lewis

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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
– C.S. Lewis

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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.
– C.S. Lewis

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

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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

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You can make anything by writing.
– C.S. Lewis

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You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.
– C.S. Lewis

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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.
– C.S. Lewis

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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

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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
– C.S. Lewis

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We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to.
– C.S. Lewis

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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

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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

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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
– C.S. Lewis

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True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
– C.S. Lewis

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