Author Topic: ~ C. S. Lewis Quotes ~ (Read 13140 times)

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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?

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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.

MysteRy · « **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...

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