~ C. S. Lewis Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

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.