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That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude. — C.S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. — C.S. Lewis

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. — C.S. Lewis

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life. — C.S. Lewis

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death. — C.S. Lewis

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. — C.S. Lewis

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through. — C.S. Lewis

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there's a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life. — C.S. Lewis

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream. — C.S. Lewis

My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin. — C.S. Lewis

The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly. — C.S. Lewis

You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music. — C.S. Lewis

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival? — C.S. Lewis

All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. — C.S. Lewis

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C.S. Lewis

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

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily. — C.S. Lewis

If Affection is made the absolute sovereign of a human life the seeds will germinate. Love, having become a god, becomes a demon. — C.S. Lewis

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed. — C.S. Lewis

Nothing, I suspect, is more astonishing in any man's life than the discovery that there do exist people very, very like himself. — C.S. Lewis

In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing. — C.S. Lewis

It is essential of the happy life that a man would have almost no mail. — C.S. Lewis

You have never talked to a mere mortal. — C.S. Lewis

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. — C.S. Lewis

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. — C.S. Lewis

Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. To the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful. — C.S. Lewis

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life. — C.S. Lewis

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago. — C.S. Lewis

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C.S. Lewis

We're in a world where everything, even a lamp-post, comes to life and grows. Now I wonder what kind of a seed a lamp-post grows from ... — C.S. Lewis

Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'. — C.S. Lewis

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

You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you. — C.S. Lewis

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. — C.S. Lewis

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled. — C.S. Lewis

... To be in time means to change. — C.S. Lewis

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. — C.S. Lewis

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors. — C.S. Lewis

Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope. — C.S. Lewis

Oh the sweet air in Narnia! An hour's life there is better than a thousand years in Calormen. — C.S. Lewis

And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles. — C.S. Lewis

Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life. — C.S. Lewis

Thanks for my life, my cure, my breakfast - and my lesson. — C.S. Lewis

Shasta was dreadfully frightened. But it suddenly came into his head, If you funk this, you'll funk every battle all your life. Now or never. — C.S. Lewis

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory. — C.S. Lewis

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye) ... — C.S. Lewis

Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making. — C.S. Lewis

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality. — C.S. Lewis

Humour is ... the all-consoling and ... the all-excusing, grace of life. — C.S. Lewis

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work. — John Piper

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. — C.S. Lewis

Nightmares don't last. — C.S. Lewis

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. — C.S. Lewis

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. — C.S. Lewis

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

I, or any mortal at any time, may be utterly mistaken as to the situation he is really in. — C.S. Lewis

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. — C.S. Lewis

And of course it is different; as different as a real thing is from a shadow or as waking life is from a dream. — C.S. Lewis

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. — C.S. Lewis

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. — C.S. Lewis

Glory be!' said the Cabby. 'I'd ha' been a better man all my life if I'd known there were things like this. — C.S. Lewis

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it. — C.S. Lewis

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say. — C.S. Lewis

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one. — C.S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis