C. S. Lewis Is Quotations

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".

Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit...

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

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

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

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

To love is to be vulnerable....

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

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

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

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

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

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

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

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

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

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

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

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

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

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

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.

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