Tag: C. S. Lewis
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
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You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis
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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
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Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis
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Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
C. S. Lewis
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis