Quotes from CS Lewis
If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
- CS Lewis
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
- CS Lewis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
- CS Lewis
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
- CS Lewis
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
- CS Lewis
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.
- CS Lewis
It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
- CS Lewis
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.
- CS Lewis
And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
- CS Lewis
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.
- CS Lewis
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.
- CS Lewis
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him
- CS Lewis