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Novelist C.S. Lewis was born on 29th November 1898 AD. A British citizen, C.S. Lewis was born in United Kingdom. He was also called Clive Staples Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis was 65 years old when he died on 22th November 1963 AD. In his life Clive Staples Lewis was famous not only for his work but also for quotations and sayings, some of which are quite popular and listed here.

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We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.	Tweet
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.	Tweet
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.	Tweet
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.	Tweet
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are.	Tweet
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.	Tweet
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.	Tweet
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.	Tweet
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.	Tweet
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.	Tweet
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.	Tweet
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.	Tweet
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.	Tweet
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.	Tweet
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.	Tweet
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.	Tweet
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.	Tweet
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.	Tweet
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.	Tweet
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.	Tweet
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.	Tweet

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