QUOTES by C.S. Lewis
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“We do not want merely to see beauty… We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.”
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“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
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“For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
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“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”
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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.”
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“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!”
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“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.”
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“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be.”
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“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis
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“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
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“Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.”
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“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
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“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.”
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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.”
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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
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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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“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.”
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“Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don’t go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don’t try to get there at all. It’ll happen when you’re not looking for it.”
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“Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.”
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“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”
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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
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“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
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“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
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“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.”
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“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
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“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.”
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“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
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“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
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“You must ask for God’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.”
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“If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?”
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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
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