Quotes from C. S. Lewis

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

I came alive when I started loving you.

On the whole, God's love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees