QUOTES by C.S. Lewis
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“The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.” – C.S. Lewis
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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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“There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice.”
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“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
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“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
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“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” – C.S. Lewis
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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
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“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.”
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“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S Lewis
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“She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
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“If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
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“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
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“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.”
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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 no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
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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.”
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“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”
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“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…”
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“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.”
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“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
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“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.”
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“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.” – C.S. Lewis
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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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“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.”
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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.” – C.S. Lewis
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“Being in love” first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.”
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“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
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“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
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“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.”
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“Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.”
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“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
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“Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.”
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“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.”
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