“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C. S. Lewis
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“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
C. S. Lewis
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“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”
C. S. Lewis
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“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
C. S. Lewis
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C. S. Lewis
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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
C. S. Lewis
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“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
C. S. Lewis
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“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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“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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“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
C. S. Lewis
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“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
C. S. Lewis
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“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
C. S. Lewis
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“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
C. S. Lewis
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“I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
C. S. Lewis
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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
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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C. S. Lewis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Grief
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“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
C. S. Lewis
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“Faith… is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.”
C. S. Lewis
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“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”
C. S. Lewis
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“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C. S. Lewis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
