C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

29-Nov-1898


United Kingdom


Novelist

Author and scholar CS Lewis taught at Oxford University and became a renowned Christian apologist, using psychology and philosophy to support the principles of his faith. He is known worldwide as the author of the book Theron of Narnia, which has been adapted into various films on big and small screens.

QUOTES BY C.S. Lewis


I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at. Louis C.K.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”

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