C. S. Lewis Quotes About Hate

• The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Love Is, Anime

• For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Silly, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

• Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid. But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry that the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is anyway possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere he can be cured and made human again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorry, Hate, Men

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

• I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Children, Hate

• I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, People, Mind

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

• Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Believe, Hatred

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Hate, Thinking

• The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, People, Escapism

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