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Letter "C" » C.S. Lewis Quotes
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«A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.»
«Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Race
| Keywords:
and elsewhere, earth, elsewhere, escapes, human race, iniquity, other race, pray, race, spread, spread over
«If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.»
«The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
circle, circling, in a circle, live in, next, oneself, the next, The Next Best
«If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
After Dark, As If, come to light, creatures, dark, dark a, eyes, found, founds, just, just as, know, light, light up, meaning, Our universe, out, should, therefore, The Creatures, the universe, the whole way, universe, universes, Very light, Was, were, whole, wholes, would-be, would
«The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
epics, preservation, production, salvation, single, tragedies
«What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
as it were, at the worst, best, catches, catch on, catch up with, come, come off, deeper, devotional, eyes, feeling, from, god, Good Feeling, guard, intimately, least, level, leveled, leveling, level best, may, mean, most, off, off and on, off guard, on and off, on guard, on your guard, prayers, really, seem, seems, sometimes, speak, supported, these, The Catch, the very worst, those, U.S., us, were, worst
«What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
Creation, fate, hands, In Your Hands, on one hand, opportunities, Other People, placed, really, soul, souls, struggles, temptations, the Fates, The Temptations, whole
«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.»
«Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
achievement, failures, finger, fingered, fingering, on the road, posted, posting, posts, road
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