“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
— C. S. Lewis
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Courage is not simply one of the
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
— C. S. Lewis
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
— C. S. Lewis
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Humans are amphibians – half spirit and
“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
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Even in literature and art, no man
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
— C. S. Lewis
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Can a mortal ask questions which God
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
— C. S. Lewis
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…
“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
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This is one of the miracles of
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
— C. S. Lewis
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God cannot give us a happiness and
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
— C. S. Lewis
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You are never too old to set
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C. S. Lewis
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This is one of the miracles of
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
— C. S. Lewis
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Category: love
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