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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Forgiveness

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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

C. S. Lewis
Beautiful, Forgiveness, Practice

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. Lewis
Inspirational, Forgiveness, Thinking
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

C. S. Lewis
Forgiveness, God, Christian

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, Forgiveness, Philosophy

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

C. S. Lewis
Life, Forgiveness, Sublime

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

C. S. Lewis
Forgiveness, Reality, Thinking

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis
Forgiveness, Religious, Forgiving
"The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis
Love, Valentines Day, Forgiveness
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

C. S. Lewis
Forgiveness, Ideas, Lovely

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