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C. S. Lewis Quotes

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.
C. S. Lewis

Biography

Author Profession: Author
Nationality: British
Born: November 29, 1898
Died: November 22, 1963

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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.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Begin, Comfort, Despair, Either, End, Find, Get, Look, May, Only, Soap, Soft, Thinking, Truth, Will, Wishful