TOP 25 QUOTES BY C. S. LEWIS

• When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

• You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

• Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

• Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

• Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the

• Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

• The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

• Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

• 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.

• There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.

• If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

• One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

• The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

• If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

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

• Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

• Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

• Enemy-occupied territory–that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

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