Quotes from CS Lewis
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
- CS Lewis
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
- CS Lewis
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
- CS Lewis
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
- CS Lewis
Freedom always comes with a price.
- CS Lewis
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
- CS Lewis
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
- CS Lewis
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
- CS Lewis
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
- CS Lewis
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
- CS Lewis
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
- CS Lewis
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
- CS Lewis