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C. S. Lewis on Anniversary

1898–1963 Ireland

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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The Problem of Pain (1940)

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

The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

The Problem of Pain (1940)

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The Screwtape Letters (1942)

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

The Problem of Pain (1940)

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

The Screwtape Letters (1942)

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.

Miracles (1947)

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

A Grief Observed (1961)

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

The Four Loves (1960)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

Out of the Silent Planet (1938)

He lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another.

The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

The World's Last Night (1952)

To love at all is to be vulnerable. . . . The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.

The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question "What if this present were the world's last night?" is equally relevant.

The World's Last Night (1952)

"They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience."

That Hideous Strength (1945)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.