All C. S. Lewis Quotes
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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