C. S. Lewis Inspirational Quotes

• When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Blessed, Blessing

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.87, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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  Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Kindness, Love Is

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

• Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Happiness, Religious

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

• You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Pain, Stains
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  I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Sad

• Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

• Joy is the serious business of heaven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Marriage, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

• When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Christian, World

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

• It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Heart, Religion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

• It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

• There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, God, Dedication

  "The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Exception To The Rule

• If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To love at all is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Vulnerable

• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Miracle

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Kindness, Generosity

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

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