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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis

Education, Man, Values, Devil, Clever

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. - C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis

Teacher, Down, Task, Modern, Cut

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. C. S. Lewis

Roads, Decision, Road, World, Circle

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. C. S. Lewis

Success, Failure, Achievement, Road

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. C. S. Lewis

Good, History, People, Good Things, Bad

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

Life, Respect, Daily, Reality, Become

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. - C. S. Lewis

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. C. S. Lewis

Colors, Christian, Be True, True, Christ

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. C. S. Lewis

Man, Progress, Walking, Road, Doing, You

We are what we believe we are. - C. S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are. C. S. Lewis

Brainy, Believe

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis

Courage, Testing, Virtue, Point, Virtues

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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Tea, Me, Book, Long, You

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis

Friendship, Art, Value, Survival, Like

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis

Change, Bird, Fly, Learn, You, Present

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis

Loneliness, Yourself, Long, Look, You

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis

Religion, Heaven, Earth, You, Will, Aim

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. - C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C. S. Lewis

Fear, Grief, Me, Like, Ever, Felt

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis

Live, Grief, Reflection, Day, Shadow

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. C. S. Lewis

Prayer, Church, I Can, Teeth, Say, Mean

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. - C. S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C. S. Lewis

Business, Joy, Heaven, Serious

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis

Important, True, Infinite, False, Only

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis

Sun, Believe, I Believe, See, I See

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis

Love, Happiness, Affection, Responsible

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. C. S. Lewis

Reading, Man, Sleep, Humility, Wife

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. - C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. Lewis

Earth, Race, Human, Never, Pray, Spread

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis

Education, Nature, God, Self, Meeting

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' C. S. Lewis

God, People, Done, Way, Will, Say

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