C. S. Lewis - Love Quotes

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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...

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

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[Christians] believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else. And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not an impersonal thing nor a static thing—not even just one person—but a dynamic pulsating activity, a life, a kind of drama, almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance … (The) pattern of this three-personal life is … the great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality.

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

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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.

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It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

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There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

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He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

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We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

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It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

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

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If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

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Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.

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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

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Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

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Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash.

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

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Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

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I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

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To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

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In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

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

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"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."

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'you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.'

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The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?

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