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Author
November 29
, 1898 -
November 22
, 1963
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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
,
You
,
Long
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
,
You
,
Long
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. Lewis
Success
,
Failure
,
Achievement
,
Road
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
C. S. Lewis
Value
,
Slavery
,
Obedience
,
Tyranny
,
Rule
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
,
Daily Life
,
Become
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
,
Look
,
You
,
Long
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
C. S. Lewis
Colors
,
True
,
Christian
,
Jesus Christ
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis
Courage
,
Virtue
,
Testing
,
Virtues
,
Point
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
,
Walking
,
Road
,
Progress
,
You
,
Back
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis
Teacher
,
Down
,
Task
,
Modern
,
Cut
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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C. S. Lewis
Business
,
Joy
,
Serious
,
Heaven
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship
,
Naked
,
Will
,
Personalities
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
,
You
,
Bad
,
Present
We are what we believe we are.
C. S. Lewis
Believe
,
Brainy
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
True
,
Important
,
Infinite
,
Only
,
False
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis
Myself
,
Experience
,
World
,
Find
,
Desire
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis
Fear
,
Me
,
Grief
,
Like
,
Felt
,
Ever
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
Religion
,
You
,
Aim
,
Heaven
,
Earth
,
Will
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
Man
,
Reading
,
Atheist
,
Wishes
,
Young
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
Good
,
Tyranny
,
May
,
Most
,
Victims
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
,
See
,
I Believe
,
Only
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
Shadow
,
Day
,
Live
,
Reflection
,
Grief
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
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
,
Philosophy
,
Like
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.
C. S. Lewis
Inspirational
,
Small
,
World
,
Story
,
See
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
,
Way
,
Say
,
Done
,
Will
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