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We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be
naturally loved. — C.S. Lewis

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give. — C.S. Lewis

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. — C.S. Lewis

Turn God's wrath into mere enlightened disapproval, and you also turn His love into mere humanitarianism. — C.S. Lewis

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good. — C.S. Lewis

Because we love something else more than this world we love even this world better than those who know no other. — C.S. Lewis

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C.S. Lewis

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. — C.S. Lewis

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. — C.S. Lewis

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. — C.S. Lewis

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion. — C.S. Lewis

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. — C.S. Lewis

I had at least loved Psyche truly. There, if nowhere else, I had the right of it and the gods were in the wrong. — C.S. Lewis

No people find each other more absurd than lovers — C.S. Lewis

Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely. — 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

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. — C.S. Lewis

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 ... — C.S. Lewis

To love is to be vulnerable ... — C.S. Lewis

To love at all is to be vulnerable. — C.S. Lewis

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. — C.S. Lewis

If we cannot persuade our friends by reasons we must be content "and not bring a mercenary army to our aid" (He meant passions.) — C.S. Lewis

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. — C.S. Lewis

We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts — C.S. Lewis

What people mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they really mean 'Love is God. — C.S. Lewis

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness. — C.S. Lewis

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. — C.S. Lewis

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. — C.S. Lewis

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. — C.S. Lewis

For the greater the love the greater the grief, and the stronger the faith the more savagely will Satan storm its fortress. — C.S. Lewis

I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes. — C.S. Lewis

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut. — C.S. Lewis

The living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else. — C.S. Lewis

He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love. — C.S. Lewis

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved. — C.S. Lewis

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours. — C.S. Lewis

They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience. — C.S. Lewis

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

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — C.S. Lewis

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. — C.S. Lewis

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

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried. — C.S. Lewis

To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours. — C.S. Lewis

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. — C.S. Lewis

Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel like martyrs. — C.S. Lewis

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision. — C.S. Lewis

Anger is the fluid that love bleeds when it gets cut. — C.S. Lewis

Friendship is ... the sort of love one can
imagine between angels ... — C.S. Lewis

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all. — C.S. Lewis

I am in love and out of it I will not go. — C.S. Lewis

The only place in all of the world where you can escape the dangers of love is hell. — C.S. Lewis

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

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. — C.S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis

Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs? — C.S. Lewis

To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin — C.S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual. — C.S. Lewis

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. — C.S. Lewis

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity. — C.S. Lewis

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us. — C.S. Lewis

Therefore, in love, He claims all. There's no bargaining with Him. — C.S. Lewis

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it. — C.S. Lewis

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

Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all. — C.S. Lewis

Enjoy it well. Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all. Hail and be glad. — C.S. Lewis

Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide. — C.S. Lewis

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians. — C.S. Lewis

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. — C.S. Lewis

I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go. — C.S. Lewis

Hail, Aslan. We hear ans obey. We are awake. We love. We think. We speak. We know. — C.S. Lewis

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? — C.S. Lewis

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — C.S. Lewis

No one can mark the exact moment at which friendship becomes love. — C.S. Lewis

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us. — C.S. Lewis

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. — C.S. Lewis

I came alive when I started loving you. — C.S. Lewis

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. — C.S. Lewis

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less. — C.S. Lewis

But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used. — C.S. Lewis

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power — C.S. Lewis

The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. — C.S. Lewis

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. — C.S. Lewis

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God. — C.S. Lewis

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. — C.S. Lewis

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love. — C.S. Lewis

No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish. — C.S. Lewis

Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. — C.S. Lewis

Love is the great conqueror of lust. — C.S. Lewis

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. — C.S. Lewis

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love. — C.S. Lewis

Do you know what it is? There's one part love in your heart, and five parts anger, and seven parts pride. — C.S. Lewis

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God. — C.S. Lewis

If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state. — C.S. Lewis

I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. — C.S. Lewis

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. — C.S. Lewis

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 — C.S. Lewis

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. — C.S. Lewis

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence. — C.S. Lewis

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

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, Do you care about the same truth? — C.S. Lewis