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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

C. S. Lewis

Pride
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Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven
3

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

C. S. Lewis

Eternity
4

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

C. S. Lewis

God
5

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

Courage
6

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

C. S. Lewis

Faith
7

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

Friends and Friendship
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness
9

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

C. S. Lewis

Pleasure
10

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

Heaven
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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

Humankind
12

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

Christians and Christianity
13

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

Giving
14

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

C. S. Lewis

Joy
15

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

Death and Dying
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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 this.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven
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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 experience of love.

C. S. Lewis

Bereavement
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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 that birth doesn't matter.

C. S. Lewis

Death and Dying
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It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

C. S. Lewis

Miracle
20

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

C. S. Lewis

Miracle
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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 are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

C. S. Lewis

Chastity
22

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

C. S. Lewis

Grief
23

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

C. S. Lewis

Giving
24

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

Misers and Misery
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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

C. S. Lewis

Religion
26

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

C. S. Lewis

Truth
27

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis

Pain
28

The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C. S. Lewis

Hell
29

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

Evangelism
30

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

C. S. Lewis

Education
31

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

C. S. Lewis

Value
32

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

Dedication
33

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

C. S. Lewis

Marriage
34

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C. S. Lewis

Difficulties
35

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, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Fools and Foolishness

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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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.

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

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

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.

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.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

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?

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 this.

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 experience of love.

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 that birth doesn't matter.

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

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 are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

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

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

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

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

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.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.