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Letter "C" » C.S. Lewis Quotes
«The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.»
«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.»
«The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.»
«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 would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society»
«The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.»
«There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth»
«If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?»
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