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Off Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
- One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like…
- And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;…
- Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it…
- There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and…
- Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to…
- If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you…
- But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more…
- At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize…
- When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off…
- If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to…
- The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
- You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once…
- Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
- What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these…
- Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level…
- I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
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