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Make Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
- That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But…
- I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they…
- Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my…
- While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at…
- At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but…
- Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems…
- This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the…
- No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all…
- I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
- The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate…
- In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now…
- All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century…
- He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is…
- Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize…
- We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not…
- For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going…
- That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,…
- A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
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