"Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I……" — C.S. Lewis
"Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
— David Berlinski
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul…
— Robert Barron
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There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to…
— Bertrand Russell
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
— Lionel Blue
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Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads…
— Edward Feser
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s…
— Mishka
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that…
— James A. Michener
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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of…
— Allan Bloom
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