Tag: C. S. Lewis
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
C. S. Lewis
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis
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We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
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I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C. S. Lewis
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What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. Lewis
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
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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