Author Topic: ~ C. S. Lewis Quotes ~ (Read 13119 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:21:37 AM »

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:22:17 AM »

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:22:57 AM »

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:23:37 AM »

Certain things if not seen as lovely or detestable are not being correctly seen at all.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:24:14 AM »

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:24:52 AM »

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:25:29 AM »

Education without values as useful as it is seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:26:11 AM »

Experience proves this or that or nothing according to the preconceptions we bring to it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:26:50 AM »

The real problem is not why some pious humble believing people suffer but why some do not.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:27:31 AM »

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:28:16 AM »

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:28:57 AM »

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience conversation would be a very poor business.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:29:38 AM »

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted despite your changing moods.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:30:24 AM »

Poetry too is a little incarnation giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** February 01, 2014, 09:31:08 AM »

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something only out of having more of it than the next man.

News: