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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“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later and then you still have to decide what to do.”

C.S. Lewis

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Choose

Crying

Decide

Right

Solution

Troubles

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”

C.S. Lewis

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Book

Cup

Enough

Large

Preference

Satisfaction

Satisfy

Suit

Tea

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

C.S. Lewis

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Brutal

Experience

God

Learn

Learning

Teacher

Teachers

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

C.S. Lewis

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Fear

Feel

Feeling

Felt

Frief

Grief

No

One

Told

“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then”

Lewis Carroll

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Person

Self

Yesterday

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

C.S. Lewis

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Cut

Deserts

Education

Educator

Irrigate

Jungles

Modern

My Quotes

Not

Nurture

Task

“Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage”

C.S. Lewis

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All

Campaign

Christian

Christianity

Disguise

Sabotage

Satirical

Us

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”

C.S. Lewis

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Best Friends

Friendship

Honesty

Life

Nude

Open

Personality

Prediction

True

True Friendship

Will

“Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers "Please will you do the job for me."”

C.S. Lewis

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All

Flattery

Job

Readers

Reqest

Task

Us

Words

Work

Writing

“When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.”

C.S. Lewis

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Experience

God

Innnocence

Innocent

Love

Moment

Recognize

See

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