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explanation of cause is not a justification -
729If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. C.S. Lewis
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Quote about history of christians -
729Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. C.S. Lewis
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quote about people guilty -
769If 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. C.S. Lewis
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meaning of world -
873Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C.S. Lewis
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quote about careful of reading -
712If 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. C.S. Lewis
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Quote about the truth -
739Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C.S. Lewis
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quote about literature -
746Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C.S. Lewis
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quote about infinitely -
681A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C.S. Lewis
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quote about humility -
712Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C.S. Lewis
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Quote about truth -
703Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C.S. Lewis
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Quote about courage -
723Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C.S. Lewis
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Quote about education without values -
866There 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." C.S. Lewis
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Quote about god -
731We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C.S. Lewis
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quote about progress -
810God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S. Lewis
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Quote about peace