Quotes from C. S. Lewis

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

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.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

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.

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.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.