C. S. Lewis - Love Quotes

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

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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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[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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Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

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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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Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

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Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

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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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On the whole, God's love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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

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

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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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The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

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

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