Top 64 Quotes About Love By C.s. Lewis
#1. If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
C.S. Lewis
#2. Turn God's wrath into mere enlightened disapproval, and you also turn His love into mere humanitarianism.
C.S. Lewis
#3. 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
#4. We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
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#5. The only place in all of the world where you can escape the dangers of love is hell.
C.S. Lewis
#6. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.
C.S. Lewis
#7. What people mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they really mean 'Love is God.
C.S. Lewis
#8. What Richard Selzer, M.D. once wrote of surgery is true of therapy: only human love keeps this from being the act of two madmen.
Thomas Lewis
#9. I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
Damian Lewis
#10. 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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#11. Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C.S. Lewis
#12. I like the feeling of hunger for it reminds me of all those hundreds of months without you.
Missing you, thinking of you, like a friendly lonely thin tiger smelling the slip of a season into a new season.
Waylon H. Lewis
#13. The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.
Huey Lewis
#14. And I love Evander Holyfield to death!
Ray Lewis
#15. Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.
Waylon H. Lewis
#16. 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
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#17. I love my films. I have stacks and stacks of DVDs. I put 'Last of the Mohicans' on the other day with Daniel Day-Lewis. It hurts me to say it because he's a Millwall fan, but I think he's fantastic.
Alvin Martin
#18. We are bidden to 'put on Christ', to become like God. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
C.S. Lewis
#19. Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel like martyrs.
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#20. C. S. Lewis, who was once described by a friend as a man in love with the imagination, believed that a complacent acceptance of the status quo reflects more than a failure of nerve.
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#21. It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
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#22. Whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least, to dislike it less.
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#23. I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.
C.S. Lewis
#24. 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
#25. But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
C.S. Lewis
#27. There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.
C.S. Lewis
#28. 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
#29. Love ... is a deep unity maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both parents ask, and receive, from God.
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#30. We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.
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#31. 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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#32. When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love. All that was true love in them was, even on earth, far more His than ours, and ours only because His.
C.S. Lewis
#33. The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4
Judith Lewis Herman
#34. When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
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#35. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
C.S. Lewis
#36. I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.
Imelda May
#37. Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.
Beverly Lewis
#38. With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.
Juliette Lewis
#39. 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
#40. I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.
Cassandra Clare
#41. I love Greg," said one of his bosses at Deutsche Bank. "I have nothing bad to say about him except that he's a fucking whack job.
Michael Lewis
#42. Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
John Lewis
#43. 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
#45. I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.
Jenny Lewis
#46. What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis
#47. Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
Anthony Lewis
#48. Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
C.S. Lewis
#49. I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.
Deborah Kara Unger
#50. I love you, always forever
Near and far, close and together
Everywhere, I will be with you
Everything, I will do for you.
Donna Lewis
#51. Why do you tell me you love me only when you're drunk or dreaming? she asked. I have awful timing, said Simon
Cassandra Clare
#52. Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.
Cassandra Clare
#53. The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
C.S. Lewis
#54. You know you're in love when you open your heart knowing there's a chance it may be broken but in opening your heart, you experience a love that you never dreamed possible.
Theresa Lewis
#55. But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time - in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.
Lee Strobel
#56. If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.
Jenifer Lewis
#57. 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
#58. To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, nor from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love its self, the very love; and that what I call the other unnatural loves, are not loves at all in their own right but become so only so far as they participate in the very love.
C.S. Lewis
#60. Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.
Lewis Mumford
#61. In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
Michael Lewis
#62. The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
Joe E. Lewis
#63. So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
"Love is a contradiction," said Jace.
Cassandra Clare
#64. Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way
Ricky Maye
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