Nature of man Quotes by C.S. Lewis

16 Nature of man quotes by C.S. Lewis

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C.S. Lewis offers 16 thoughtful musings that weave together faith, morality, and human frailty. His gentle yet firm voice encourages readers to examine the heart’s longings and its capacity for growth.

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“the question of what humanity is to be is going to be decided in the next sixty years.”

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“Human will becomes truly creative and truly our own when it is wholly God’s, and this is one of the many senses…

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“our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding.”

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“the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things.”

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“The word 'human' refers to something more than the bodily form or even the rational mind. It refers also to that community…

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“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an…

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“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that…

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“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to…

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“Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will,…

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“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless…

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“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a…

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“The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their…

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“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes though stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet…

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“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own…

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“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The…

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“Plato before him had said the same. The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be…

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“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es…

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“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.…

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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

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“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are…

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“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the…

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