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(784 votes) God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(751 votes) Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(717 votes) I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(686 votes) Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(676 votes) Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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(673 votes) Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(654 votes) The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

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(653 votes) 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.

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(641 votes) 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 about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(626 votes) I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(546 votes) A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

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(514 votes) There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(505 votes) The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(492 votes) All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(490 votes) I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(487 votes) Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(484 votes) You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(482 votes) Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(482 votes) The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(480 votes) 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
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(479 votes) 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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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(478 votes) If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(478 votes) Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(475 votes) The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(474 votes) Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(472 votes) How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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(468 votes) Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(468 votes) No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(467 votes) We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that morn.''

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(467 votes) Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(466 votes) The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(465 votes) If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(465 votes) Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(463 votes) The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(461 votes) It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(460 votes) God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(458 votes) Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(457 votes) It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(455 votes) 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.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(452 votes) If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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