C. S. Lewis Quotes About Hatred

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Running, Loneliness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

• The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Love Is, Anime

• 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

• Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, People, Hatred

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loneliness, Envy, Hatred

• We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Hatred, May

• Hatred obscures all distinctions.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hatred, Distinction

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lost Love, Love Is, Hatred

• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Zoos, Lying

• Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Growing Up, Years

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

• 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

• He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hatred, Three, Results

You May Also Like:

J. R. R. Tolkien

Joy Davidman

Lewis Carroll

Gilbert K. Chesterton

J. K. Rowling

Douglas Gresham

Georgie Henley