Quote

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

C. S. Lewis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Essayist
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Literary Scholar
Medievalist
Novelist
Belfast
Ireland
Clive Hamilton
N. W. Clerk
CS Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Common
Discover
Companionship
Moment
Burden
Arises
Moments
Mere
Companion
Others
Friendship
Insight
Two
Unique
Arise
Even
Taste
Till
Share
Treasure
Interest
Believed
Companions

More quotes by C. S. Lewis

Image
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
C. S. Lewis
Image
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
C. S. Lewis
Image
It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been had for a sucker by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.
C. S. Lewis
Image
You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
C. S. Lewis
Image
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
C. S. Lewis
Image
To love is to be vulnerable.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present not talking.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Imagine yourself as a living house.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.
C. S. Lewis
Image
When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
C. S. Lewis
Image
But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.
C. S. Lewis
Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
C. S. Lewis
Image
No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.
C. S. Lewis
Image
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
C. S. Lewis
Image
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.
C. S. Lewis