C. S. Lewis Quotes about Silence

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I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

C. S. Lewis

Silence, Speech

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

C. S. Lewis

Heart, Voice, Silence

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

C. S. Lewis

Hurt, Heart, Silence

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C. S. Lewis

Wisdom, Loneliness, Silence

"The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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

C. S. Lewis

Life, Space, Silence

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

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

C. S. Lewis

Race, Silence, Achievement

C. S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, Scribner

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

C. S. Lewis

Voice, Silence, Be Confident

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

C. S. Lewis

Gratitude, Doors, Silence

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

C. S. Lewis Quotes about Silence

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