One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.
There's an abundance of book quotes online; however, this passage might sound pretty familiar to you. And if it does, your brain is not playing mind games on you. This famous quote from one of the Narnia books may hit close to home because it takes you back to when you discovered the series and the magical realm of Narnia. Back in a time when fairytales didn't feel so unrealistic or childish, and the idea that you might "discover" a new universe in the back of your closet didn't seem so ridiculous. Oh, what a lovely experience it must've been to read The Chronicles of Narnia books for the first time.
Whether a fan of the novel series or the media franchise, you must know who brought this fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts, and talking animals to light. Clive Staples Lewis, the British writer and theologian must be no stranger to you then. Throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrote more than 30 books. Although not explicitly a children's book author, he's best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, now considered a classic of children's literature and some of the best children's books.
However, the numerous books are not all the writer has left behind. C.S. Lewis left hundreds of inspiring quotes and quotes from books that keep the memory of this incredible author alive to this day. And whether you're familiar with the author and his stories or not, many of these famous quotes by C.S. Lewis will strike you as wise and moving.
Below, we have compiled a selection of the best C.S. Lewis quotes about friendship, love, faith, suffering, literature, and Christianity. But don't get discouraged if you are not a Christian or religious; either way, you will find an inspiring quote that will fit your beliefs and values. Is there a quote from the Narnia books that you particularly like? Let us know!
#21
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to him and bad when it turns from him.”
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#22
“You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.”
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#23
“Friendship… Is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...”
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#24
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
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#25
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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#26
“Things never happen the same way twice.”
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#27
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
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#28
“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
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#29
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
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#30
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
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#31
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
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#32
“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
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#33
“You can make anything by writing.”
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#34
“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, at the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, when he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, and when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”
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#35
“A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.”
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#36
“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
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#37
“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
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#38
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
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#39
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
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#40
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
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