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C.S. Lewis

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J. I. PACKER You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
ALJEAN HARMETZ Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.
CHRISTIAN BALOGA Theology-An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Everything hinges on the Christ of the cross. The fact of the cross is the axiom of theological thou...
KAZOH KITAMORI Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don...
RANDY ALCORN The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE Being thrust into the role of caregiver without any preparation is difficult under any circumstances...
CAROL LEVINE We pushed for earlier and unannounced bag checks because we realized that the amount of alcohol smug...
MAKEDA KEFALE We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind...
PHILIP ZALESKI Making a journey into C.S. Lewis' quotes is like a journey into the most beautiful floral valley whi...
JOEY TALLADINO There are Russian intelligence reports that a considerable amount of plutonium was smuggled to North...
BRUCE BENNETT It doesn't cover the (full) amount per animal, but without the goodwill of these sponsors, we wouldn...
HELGE SINES There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.
LAURA AHEARN It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can ...
GAO XINGJIAN Now think about crawling into a burning house not knowing where you're going, you don't know how lon...
RICK BUTLER It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under 'oil for food'...
SCOTT RITTER The ECB and further interest rates are still on peoples' minds, but it is not really affecting marke...
GIUSEPPE AMATO He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you....
JULIAN FELLOWES Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the inter...
WOODROW WILSON All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Unmarried couples face a difficult issue in that if their financial accounts, loans or place of resi...
DEBORAH DILLON I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m...
NEIL GAIMAN Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at ...
FRANZ KAFKA Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature...
JAMES CAMERON Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the wor...
ROGER VER The athletes can be under cover if they're not competing, instead of having to stand there and get s...
BOB HOLT Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. MENCKEN Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis...
THE WIZARD OF OZ How can you know with any amount of certainty that what they're telling you now is the truth?
JEREMY KARLIN She can come into it without any preconceptions.
DAVID JANOLLARI It will be a lot of help to the budget, ... Now we can get some things the budget didn't cover.
JAMES HOOD Under the cover of money take place the most inhuman mathematical operations; under the cover of hum...
MARIANA FULGER I think it's critical this videotape is reviewed closely. ... We want to know the exact dialogue amo...
CINDY BEAVERS But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
KARL LIEBKNECHT Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day i...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I don't think we can build much of a future,' says Shara, 'without knowing the truth of the past. It...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT It will either be a wonderful way to access some of the country's best renewable resources or, under...
DANIEL KAMMEN By the time I’ve finished with you,
you won’t know whether you’ve been kissed or cut,...
WARSAN SHIRE We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
NELLY SACHS My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded...
GENE RODDENBERRY One of the greatest disconnects for this generation is how life and work fit together. There is a ne...
DAVID KINNAMAN Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental ...
MATT CHANDLER The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
JIM ROHN Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you shou...
C. JOYBELL C. Let me tell you what I think about your fucking rules," he said, his voice dripping with veno...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON It's not a question of us losing anymore. Now, we're going into the game knowing that we can win.
GREG ANDREWS More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
BRIAN ENO And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS Well… er -”
“Expecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!” Sam Barthoff, ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Dad, I’m not at all sure I can follow you any longer in your simple Christian faith’ stated the ...
RUTH BELL GRAHAM The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardles...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
ROBERT BENCHLEY We can restore at a sector/track level without any preparation, and restore the specified amount of ...
MARK PHILLIPPI No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is di...
SAMUEL ADAMS In the world of unregulated hedge funds, it can be hard to tell fact from fiction. This one was pure...
MARK SCHONFELD Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment...
ROBERT BENCHLEY The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
SUSHIL SINGH Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of princi...
DAVID HUME Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of princi...
ANGELA CARTER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wing...
K.J. KILTON They understood the theology of their bodies, ... The call to love as God loves is stamped right in...
CHRISTOPHER WEST 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:

1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.
RON REAGAN The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan ...
ADLAI STEVENSON The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON The wealth in wisdom far outweighs any amount of monetary wealth. You can only be robbed of one.
FATHOM If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in yo...
FRIEDRICH HEBBEL With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty o...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!
CHARLES DICKENS LEAP is intended to help low-income residents pay their bills, not cover the whole amount. Of course...
GLENN COOPER Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.
SHANNON L. ALDER If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
GEORGE HARRISON That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. T...
CASSANDRA CLARE Meanwhile,” Simon added, “I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I�...
CASSANDRA CLARE That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay so...
CASSANDRA CLARE Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE Sharon Shinn is a lover of words and a builder of worlds. She makes science-fiction seem like fantas...
ALETHEA KONTIS Courage: To step into a conversation with intention and without knowing how to get back out of it.
DWIGHT FRINDT They can be rather jaded. They're letting the viewers make up their mind without getting into the me...
ANDY RAMIREZ There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, an...
DOROTHEA BRANDE In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a ...
ROGER AVARY To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowin...
FRANK HERBERT Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see man...
IVAN KRASTEV The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office,
LAWRENCE WILKERSON Leadership meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts...
JON MEACHAM I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...
THOMAS PAINE They're out of contact now; their cell phones may not be working there. When we get into the trenche...
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C.S. LEWIS There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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C.S. LEWIS I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. LEWIS Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C.S. LEWIS A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slight...
C.S. LEWIS Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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C.S. LEWIS Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel l...
C.S. LEWIS Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It i...
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C.S. LEWIS If ever the book which I am not going to write is written it must be the full confession by Christen...
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C.S. LEWIS We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His b...
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C.S. LEWIS In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself ...
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C.S. LEWIS All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
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C.S. LEWIS In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which ...
C.S. LEWIS The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT ...
C.S. LEWIS We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become ...
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C.S. LEWIS We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for m...
C.S. LEWIS A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. ...
C.S. LEWIS [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense i...
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C.S. LEWIS Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the s...
C.S. LEWIS Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist...
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C.S. LEWIS The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but t...
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C.S. LEWIS To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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C.S. LEWIS Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...
C.S. LEWIS You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
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C.S. LEWIS In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates o...
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C.S. LEWIS Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...
C.S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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C.S. LEWIS They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
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C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire.
C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
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