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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Life

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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Life, Encouraging, Not Giving Up

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Inspirational, Life, Change

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Life, Happiness, Happy

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Love, Inspirational, Life

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Inspirational, Life, Faith

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Life, Change, Wisdom

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

Life, Wisdom, Thinking

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

Life, Forgiveness, Sublime

Do not dare not to dare.

Life, Religion, Dare

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

Life, Animal, Reality

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

Life, Believe, People

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Life, Wisdom, Teacher

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

Life, Order, Suffering

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Life, Grief, Sadness

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

Life, Rumor, World

"Joyful Christian".

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

Life, Christian, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

Inspirational, Life, Christian

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

Life, Space, Silence

C. S. Lewis, Aurand Harris (1985). “The Magician's Nephew”, p.21, Dramatic Publishing

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

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