C.S. Lewis
Full Name: Clive Staples Lewis
Date of Birth: 29 November 1898
Date of Death: 22 November 1963
Country: United Kingdom (Northern Ireland / England)
About C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis was a British writer, literary scholar, and Christian apologist best known for his contributions to literature, theology, and fantasy. He served as a fellow and tutor in English literature at Oxford University and later became Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. Lewis gained worldwide recognition for The Chronicles of Narnia, a classic fantasy series for children. His nonfiction works explore faith, morality, suffering, and human nature. Lewis remains one of the most influential Christian thinkers and authors of the 20th century.
Quotes by C.S Lewis
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
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Pain insists upon being attended to.
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We are what we believe we are.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.
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No one knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable.
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Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed.
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Human history is the long tale of suffering through which the human race seeks to transform the world.
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Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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The wise man is not afraid of death, for he knows it is a natural consequence of life.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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Courage, dear heart.
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We read to know we are not alone.
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True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
