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#2: “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
- The Problem of Pain
#2: “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in...
- Vulnerability
The only way to combat foreboding joy is gratitude.” Brené...
- Marriage
C.S. Lewis Quotes on Love. person . love. ᐧ. marriage....
- Affection
He found that man needs affection, that life without a...
- Forgiveness
C.S. Lewis Quotes on Love. person. The Problem of Pain....
- Gratitude
The only way to combat foreboding joy is gratitude.” Brené...
- The Problem of Pain
You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher.
Aug 25, 2014 · The great Christian writer C.S. Lewis is enormously quotable. Here are 26 of the best quotes quotes from what is arguably the best popular overview of Christianity of the twentieth century, his classic book Mere Christianity, almost one quote from each chapter (almost).
- Quotes About Love
- Quotes About Faith
- Quotes About Bravery
- Quotes About Life
- Quotes About Friendship
- Inspirational Quotes
- Quotes About Narnia
Throughout his career, C.S. Lewis penned several writings focused on love. One of his most famous works is The Four Loves, published in July 1960, just four months before the tragic death of his wife. Soon after, he wrote A Grief Observed, in which he continued to explore his emotions through the lens of her passing. Love was never far away from th...
Clive Staples Lewis was a lot of things to a lot of people, but above all else, he was a Christian. This famous writer of children’s stories and apologetics wrote with the love of God and Jesus Christ close to his heart, with one eye on the real world and another on the serious business of heaven and beyond. As such, the best C.S. Lewis quotes abou...
Having lived through both World Wars, Lewis was no stranger to uncertainty and fear. During his adult years, he served in active duty through World War I and worked as a BBC broadcaster during World War II. Lewis’s life experiences tremendously impacted his writings. Every step of the way required bravery, an acceptance that certain things were out...
Without sounding reductive, all writing is about life. Even when someone is spinning a yarn focused on death, that tale is as much about the absence of life as anything else. C. S. Lewis’s breadth of writing styles and genres led him to pen some of the most inspiring quotes about life, soundbites that will help you get through difficult days and pu...
Friendship makes the world go round. As the old saying goes, friends are family that you choose to meet, and C.S. Lewis spent his years as a professor at Oxford University with some of his closest friends. From his writings, it is clear how much he values friendship. We picked some of our favourite quotes about friendship that highlight the emphasi...
You never know where, when and how inspiration might strike. Whether from the perspective of Lucy in The Chronicles of Narnia or through the lens of faith in Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis built life lessons into his stories, and nuggets of wisdom to guide readers and listeners through tough times and provide extra layers of joy when things are goin...
For all his theological works and tremendously detailed understandings of psalms, morals, ideas and the rest, it is The Chronicles of Narnia that shines brightest in the C.S. Lewis catalogue. As a child, Lewis was an avid reader of Beatrix Potter, and The Tales of Peter Rabbit were a huge inspiration for The Chronicles of Narnia, a fantastical fair...
C. S. Lewis. Life, Forgiveness, Sublime. 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.
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” 5. “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
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From "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," "The Screwtape Letters" and more—we have the greatest quotes from C.S. Lewis on friendship, love, pain and faith.
