Clive Staples Lewis

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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.
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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.
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

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