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Upon 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,…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
- Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
- The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
- We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if…
- Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his…
- Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis:…
- But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
- Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our…
- 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…
- When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you…
- Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched,…
- We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts…
- It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived…
- The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid…
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- My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star. — Winston Churchill
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