Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
C. S. LEWISEveryone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
C. S. LEWISYou must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
C. S. LEWISNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. LEWISWe must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C. S. LEWISIt is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
C. S. LEWISThe death of a beloved is an amputation.
C. S. LEWISIsn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C. S. LEWISLove 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. LEWISPain 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. LEWISLove may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C. S. LEWISIt is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C. S. LEWISWe may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
C. S. LEWISTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
C. S. LEWISA proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
C. S. LEWISWe meet no ordinary people in our lives.
C. S. LEWISWe never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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