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C. S. Lewis

British writer, lay theologian, and scholar

1898–1963

151 quotes, most often on God, Christianity and Morality. Part of the Writers collection.

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. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
The Four Loves (1960), Ch. VI: “Charity”
- Love
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Answers to Questions on Christianity
- Love
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
The Pilgrim’s Regress
- Love
- Sex
If, as I can’t help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. III
- Life & Death
- Love
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. X: “Heaven”
- God
- Love
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), Ch. III
- Love
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “Membership”
- God
- Love
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. III: “Divine Goodness”
- Love
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
The Four Loves (1960), Introduction
- Friendship
- Love

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