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An Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is well known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.Here are some famous quotes by C. S. Lewis.
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The absent are easily refuted.
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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This moment contains all moments.
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Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
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Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
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Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
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You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Reasoning is never like poetry judged from the outside at all.
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You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
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Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion or else revelation.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
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If God is satisfied with the work the work may be satisfied with itself.
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Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
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Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.
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The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction.
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Our passions are not too strong they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
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True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.
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The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
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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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Certain things if not seen as lovely or detestable are not being correctly seen at all.
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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
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Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
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Education without values as useful as it is seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Experience proves this or that or nothing according to the preconceptions we bring to it.
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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
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If one is only to talk from first-hand experience conversation would be a very poor business.
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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted despite your changing moods.
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Poetry too is a little incarnation giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
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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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Love while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes can never cease to will their removal.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make unawares the most shocking self-revelations.
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If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
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God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say and as a thing which he makes.
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Man's conquest of Nature turns out in the moment of its consummation to be Nature's conquest of Man.
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If you are really a product of a materialistic universe how is it that you don't feel at home there?
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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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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Other than heaven the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
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Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.
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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.
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When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.
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Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
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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!'
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
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The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
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Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval instead of as a merely descriptive term cannot be adult themselves.
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Many things--such as loving going to sleep or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
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Morality like numinous awe is a jump; in it man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
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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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Love is not affectionate feeling but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
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There are no variations except for those who know a norm and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
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It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
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The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
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It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
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Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
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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.
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Unless Christianity is wholly false the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
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The more often a man feels without acting the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run the less he'll be able to feel.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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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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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
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Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
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If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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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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God whispers to us in our pleasures speaks in our conscience but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given but are the activity itself in consummation.
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Human beings all over the earth have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way and can't really get rid of it.
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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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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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
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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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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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Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
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Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.
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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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There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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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.
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Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
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I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
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The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
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Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged its literary claims will I think be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
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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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It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere 'opiate of the people' have a contempt for the rich that is for all mankind except the poor.
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A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve and you find that you have excluded life itself.
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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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A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
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Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials as though the burden of proof lay on it we have taken the wrong position.
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When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
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If you look for truth you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin and in the end despair.
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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.
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You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach the same restlessness the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
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'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve ' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'
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Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
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Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
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In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence it is only logical to cut up imbeciles criminals enemies or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct if you listen to it will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see all those words (horrifying wonderful hideous exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please will you do the job for me?'
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You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
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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.
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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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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.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open millions of surprises ' as Herbert says 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is if I may say it very unscrupulous.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it 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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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.
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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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Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.
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If these holy places things and days cease to remind us if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity and the perennial danger of 'religion.'
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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.
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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.
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What seem our worst prayers may really be in God's eyes our best. Those I mean which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us as it were off our guard.
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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges that it should be resistant should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn you will find yourself disliking him less.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.