C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."
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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
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
C.S. Lewis
"Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery."
C.S. Lewis
"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."
C.S. Lewis
"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."
C.S. Lewis
"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely"
C.S. Lewis
"We are what we believe we are!"
C.S. Lewis
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."
C.S. Lewis
"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
C.S. Lewis
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
C.S. Lewis
"The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)..."
C.S. Lewis
"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
C.S. Lewis
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
C.S. Lewis
"I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
C.S. Lewis
"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."
C.S. Lewis
"The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not."
C.S. Lewis
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
C.S. Lewis
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