Quotes By C.S. Lewis

"Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
 
"Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them. And you and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness which has been laid upon us for nearly a hundred years." - The Weight of Glory
 
"I do not believe one can settle how much we ought ot give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare."
 
Quote from miracles

This is a quote I am thinking about since watcing voyager and seeing what a skeptic that Captain janeway is I found this quote in mircales that is quite interesting

This cosmic mind will help us only if we put it at the beginning If we suppose it to be not the product of the total system but the basic orignal self exiistent Fact which exists in its own right but to admit That sort of cosmic mind is to admit a God outside of Nature a tracedent and supernaturel God This route which look life offering or escape REally leads us around again to the place we started from.
 
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
 
"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good:a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right."
 
"The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."
 
"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings be fruitful."
 
"Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior."
 
"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be `given` in the facts of experience."
 
"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 into 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."
 
"Thirty was so strange for me. I`ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."
 
"The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consumation."
 
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...."
 
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
 
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