C S Lewis quotes and sayings
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"Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. "
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. "
"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence."
"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
"Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
"Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred."
"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
"Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."