I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
C. S. LEWISAtheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
-
-
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
C. S. LEWIS -
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
C. S. LEWIS -
Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
C. S. LEWIS -
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
C. S. LEWIS -
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
C. S. LEWIS -
The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
C. S. LEWIS -
She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
C. S. LEWIS -
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. LEWIS -
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
C. S. LEWIS -
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
C. S. LEWIS -
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
C. S. LEWIS -
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C. S. LEWIS -
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. LEWIS -
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. LEWIS -
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
C. S. LEWIS