C.S.Lewis Quotes

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship a fool can put out the sun by scribbling 'darkness' of the word on the walls of his cell.
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A man who eats or lies with his wife or preparing to sleep in humility, gratitude and temperance, is, according to Christian standards, in an infinitely higher than those of Bach or reading Plato to listen in a state of pride.
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A young man who wishes to remain a good atheist can not be too careful of his reading.
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Affection is responsible for nine tenths of what is solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Objective earth to heaven and you get thrown in. Aim at earth and you get either.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Very easy, I think. All questions are nonsense unanswerable.
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Christianity, if false, does not matter, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing he can not be large enough.
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Courage is not only one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Do not use words too big for the subject. Not "infinitely" when you mean "very" or you do not have word on the left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a clever devil.
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Eros is naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.
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Even in literature and art, no one cares about originality will always be original: whereas if you just try to tell the truth (without twopence how often it has been said before), you can Nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, you learn.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to success.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... He has no survival value, but rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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God can not give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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Is the world so sweet for you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead of time that we leave behind.
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How incessant and great are the evils which a prolonged old age is full.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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