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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.
~ C. S. Lewis
Cell
Darkness
Diminish
Glory
God
Him
His
Lunatic
Man
More
Out
Put
Refusing
Scribbling
Sun
Than
Walls
Word
Worship
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A 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
Bach
Christian
Eating
Go
Higher
His
Humility
Infinitely
Listening
Lying
Man
Plato
Preparing
Pride
Reading
Sleep
Standards
State
Temperance
Than
Thankfulness
Who
Wife
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
~ C. S. Lewis
Atheist
Cannot
Careful
His
Man
Reading
Remain
Sound
Too
Who
Wishes
Young
Young Man
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
~ C. S. Lewis
Affection
Durable
Happiness
Lives
Nine-Tenths
Our
Our Lives
Responsible
Solid
Whatever
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
~ C. S. Lewis
Aim
Earth
Get
Heaven
Neither
Thrown
Will
You
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
~ C. S. Lewis
Cause
Explanation
Justification
Reason
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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
Ask
Easily
Finds
God
Mortal
Nonsense
Questions
Quite
Should
Think
Which
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
~ C. S. Lewis
Cannot
Christianity
False
Importance
Important
Infinite
Moderately
Only
The Only Thing
Thing
True
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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
Courage
Every
Form
Point
Simply
Testing
Virtue
Virtues
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Don'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
About
Big
Infinite
Infinitely
Left
Mean
Otherwise
Really
Say
Something
Subject
Talk
Too
Use
Very
Want
Word
Words
You
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
~ C. S. Lewis
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
~ C. S. Lewis
Bodies
Eros
Friendship
Naked
Personalities
Will
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Even 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
About
Art
Be Original
Become
Been
Before
Bothers
Caring
Even
Ever
Has-Been
Having
How
Literature
Man
Nine
Noticed
Often
Original
Originality
Out
Simply
Tell
Ten
Times
Truth
Try
Whereas
Who
Will
Without
You
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
~ C. S. Lewis
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
~ C. S. Lewis
Achievement
Fails
Failures
Finger
Forward
Posts
Repeated
Road
Success
Toward
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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
Art
Friendship
Give
Like
Philosophy
Rather
Survival
Things
Those
Unnecessary
Value
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
~ C. S. Lewis
Apart
Because
Cannot
Give
God
Happiness
Himself
Peace
Thing
Us
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Has 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
Ahead
Any
Been
Behind
Better
Better Things
Kind
Leave
Regret
Should
Than
Things
World
You
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
~ C. S. Lewis
Age
Great
How
Ills
Incessant
Old
Old Age
Prolonged
Which
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
~ C. S. Lewis
Animal
Animals
Belong
Eternal
Half
Humans
Inhabit
Spirit
Spirits
Time
World
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