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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.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
—C. S. Lewis
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
—C. S. Lewis
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
—C. S. Lewis
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—according to the way you react to it.
—C. S. Lewis
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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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
—C. S. Lewis
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—according to the way you react to it.
—C. S. Lewis
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A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
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We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Mere Christianity
In 1941 England, when all hope was threatened by the inhumanity of war, C. S. Lewis was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. More than half a century later, these talks continue to retain their poignancy. First heard as informal radio broadcasts on the BBC, the lectures were published as three books and subsequently combined as Mere Christianity. C. S. Lewis proves that “at the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice,” rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity’s many denominations. This twentieth century masterpiece provides an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith.
I keep a copy in the Kindle app on my phone.
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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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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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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
—C. S. Lewis