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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it woul
C. S. Lewis in ADDICTION
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our exp
C. S. Lewis in BEREAVEMENT
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they a
C. S. Lewis in CHASTITY
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis in CHRISTIAN
The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.
C. S. Lewis in CHRISTIAN
I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.
C. S. Lewis in CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIANITY
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
C. S. Lewis in COURAGE
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?
C. S. Lewis in DEATH AND DYING
It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say tha
C. S. Lewis in DEATH AND DYING
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 in DEDICATION
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that morn.''
C. S. Lewis in DIFFICULTIES
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis in EDUCATION
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C. S. Lewis in ETERNITY
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C. S. Lewis in EVANGELISM
Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
C. S. Lewis in FAITH
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love
C. S. Lewis in FOOLS AND FOOLISHNESS
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 in FRIENDSHIP
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 in FRIENDSHIP
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 in FRIENDSHIP
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 in FRIENDSHIP
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
C. S. Lewis in GIVING
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis in GIVING
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis in GOD
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis in GRIEF
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis in HAPPINESS
Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C. S. Lewis in HEAVEN
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis in HEAVEN
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in thi
C. S. Lewis in HEAVEN
The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis in HELL
Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis in HUMANKIND
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