Author Topic: ~ C. S. Lewis Quotes ~  (Read 13135 times)

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« Reply #75 on: February 02, 2014, 12:01:30 PM »
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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« Reply #76 on: February 02, 2014, 12:02:27 PM »
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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« Reply #77 on: February 02, 2014, 12:03:14 PM »
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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« Reply #78 on: February 02, 2014, 12:03:55 PM »
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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« Reply #79 on: February 02, 2014, 01:15:50 PM »
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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« Reply #80 on: February 02, 2014, 01:17:31 PM »
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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« Reply #81 on: February 02, 2014, 01:19:04 PM »
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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« Reply #82 on: February 02, 2014, 01:19:49 PM »
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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« Reply #83 on: February 02, 2014, 01:20:32 PM »
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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« Reply #84 on: February 02, 2014, 01:21:14 PM »
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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« Reply #85 on: February 02, 2014, 01:22:01 PM »
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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« Reply #86 on: February 02, 2014, 01:22:54 PM »
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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« Reply #87 on: February 02, 2014, 01:23:32 PM »
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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« Reply #88 on: February 02, 2014, 01:24:22 PM »
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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« Reply #89 on: February 02, 2014, 01:25:12 PM »
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...