“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
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C.S. Lewis quotes
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
“To love is to be vulnerable.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”