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Term Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
- Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to…
- Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
- Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being…
- Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken…
- To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,…
- Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
- The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
- Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish…
- If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked…
- As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he…
- But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,…
- Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of…
- And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no…
- Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.
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