C. S. Lewis Quotes About Life And Death

• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Believe, Life And Death

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

• Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life And Death, Taste, Horror

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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