C.S. Lewis
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C.S. Lewis
Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers…
C.S. Lewis
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C.S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.
C.S. Lewis
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. детская стоматология москва
C.S. Lewis
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
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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…
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No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to…
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Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
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'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to…
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C.S. Lewis
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C.S. Lewis
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
C.S. Lewis
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
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Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C.S. Lewis
Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.
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I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
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We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid…
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It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
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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.
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Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It?s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
C.S. Lewis
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me…
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A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.
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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.
C.S. Lewis
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
C.S. Lewis
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
C.S. Lewis
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction.
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You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation…
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same…
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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This moment contains all moments.
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There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine…
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut…
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Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
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Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
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Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. cosmetic dentist los…
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it. dentist los angeles ca
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C.S. Lewis
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
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If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
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The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
C.S. Lewis
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
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Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. car rental in chicago
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore…
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Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.
C.S. Lewis
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
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When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he…
C.S. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
C.S. Lewis
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. chicago divorce lawyer
C.S. Lewis
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
C.S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C.S. Lewis
You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.