Differences Quotes by C. S. Lewis

12 Differences quotes by C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis offers a tidy set of 12 reflections that weave imagination with moral nuance. These brief gems give a taste of how he sees contrast shaping character and belief.

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Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

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A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

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The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is…

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There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are…

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At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that…

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Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing…

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A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the…

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No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a…

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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society…

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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which…

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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the…

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In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should…

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Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified…

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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has…

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