C.S. Lewis

Date of Birth:: 29 November 1898
Date of Death:: 22 November 1963
Nationality:: British
Quote count:: 3593
Times favorited:: 787

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis , commonly referred to as C.

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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

C.S. Lewis

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Existence

God

Happiness

Peace

Pessimism

Pessimistic

Us

“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”

C.S. Lewis

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Enchantments

Gives

Imaginations

Its

Love

Miracle

Miracles

One

Power

Seeing

Yet

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”

C.S. Lewis

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Art

Faith

Faith And Mood

Moods

Persistence

Persisting

Reason

“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”

C.S. Lewis

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Bad Times

Bad Times. Trials

Fail

Failure

Good Times

Life

Success

Time

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

C.S. Lewis

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Change

Comfort

Dreams

Finding

My Quotes

Seek

Seeking

Thinking

Thoughts

Truth

Will

Wishful

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

Lewis B. Smedes

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C. S. Lewis

Forgiveness

“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”

Lewis B. Smedes

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Forgiveness

Forgiving

Memory

Past

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

C.S. Lewis

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Art

Friends

Friendship

God

Philosophy

Survival

Universe

“Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”

C.S. Lewis

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Behavior

Behaviour

Deeds

Effort

Love

Seep

Sleep

Try

Worst

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.”

Lewis Carroll

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Alice In Wonderland

Day

Fork In The Road

Paths

Road

Tree

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