For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
C. S. LEWISLove may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
-
-
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
C. S. LEWIS -
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
C. S. LEWIS -
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
C. S. LEWIS -
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
C. S. LEWIS -
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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 -
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
C. S. LEWIS -
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. LEWIS -
Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
C. S. LEWIS -
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWIS -
Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
C. S. LEWIS -
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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 -
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
C. S. LEWIS -
In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
C. S. LEWIS