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C S Lewis Quotes

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You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first  (C S Lewis Quotes) There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them  (C S Lewis Quotes) We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life  (C S Lewis Quotes) And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself  (C S Lewis Quotes) Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others  (C S Lewis Quotes) A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems  (C S Lewis Quotes) Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers  (C S Lewis Quotes) The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books  (C S Lewis Quotes) God is not a static thing... but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance  (C S Lewis Quotes) Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously  (C S Lewis Quotes) The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs  (C S Lewis Quotes) There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else  (C S Lewis Quotes) ... this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite  (C S Lewis Quotes) In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough  (C S Lewis Quotes) The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four  (C S Lewis Quotes) Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval  (C S Lewis Quotes) The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks  (C S Lewis Quotes) For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men  (C S Lewis Quotes) Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best  (C S Lewis Quotes) Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling  (C S Lewis Quotes) Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available  (C S Lewis Quotes) What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations  (C S Lewis Quotes) Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species  (C S Lewis Quotes) The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker’s desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition  (C S Lewis Quotes) A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can’t put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover  (C S Lewis Quotes) Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next  (C S Lewis Quotes) Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience  (C S Lewis Quotes) Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other  (C S Lewis Quotes) Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things  (C S Lewis Quotes) Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition  (C S Lewis Quotes)
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