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C. S. Lewis
Irish Author
Born: Nov 29, 1898
Died: Nov 22, 1963
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis
Teacher Down Educator Task Modern Cut Deserts
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
Important Christianity Only True Importance False Moderately Infinite The Only Thing Cannot Thing
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery. C. S. Lewis
Obedience Tyranny Value Rule Objective Idea Dogmatic Very Which Belief Necessary Slavery
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. C. S. Lewis
Believe Christianity Else Everything Everything Else Sun See Risen Only Because Saint Patrick's Day
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis
Loneliness You Yourself Christ Will Hatred Long Rage Despair Else Ruin Everything Everything Else Run Find Only Thrown Long Run Look Him Decay
We 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
You Man Progress Progressive Back Right Road Case Road Wrong Most Doing Walking Want Means Turns Who Right
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis
Courage Every Virtue Virtues Point Simply Testing Form
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. C. S. Lewis
Success Failure Achievement Finger Posts Road Toward Fails Failures Repeated Forward
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
Friendship Art Survival Value Philosophy Those Unnecessary Give Rather Like Things
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.' C. S. Lewis
God People Will Way Say Those Says Kinds Thy Done Then Your Who Whom Right Two
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis
Myself Experience World Made Find No Experience Most Another Probable Which Explanation Satisfy Desire
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis
Me You Book Long Big Tea Enough Big Enough Cup Get Suit
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. C. S. Lewis
Christ Be True Christian Our Must Colors True Show Jesus Jesus Christ
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis
You Change Bird Fly Indefinitely Sight Bad Must Would Would-Be Hatched Remaining Jolly Like Learn Go Egg Eggs May Just Decent Being Cannot Ordinary While Turn Hard Harder Present
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
God Man Darkness Walls Word Worship Sun Diminish Out More Put Him Glory His Than Cell Refusing Scribbling Lunatic
If 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
Truth You Will Thinking Despair Find Only Wishful Wishful Thinking Look Comfort End Begin Get May Soap In The End Either Soft
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis
Happiness God Peace Give Himself Because Cannot Apart Us Thing
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. C. S. Lewis
You World Decision Circle Will Long Few Living Every Enough Meet Finally Draw Those Must Followed Rather Road Roads Make Gradually Fork Where Forks After Again Centre Miles Therefore Each Nearer Two
If 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
History You World Will Thought Become Think Other Those Find Since Most Read Ineffective Were Did Precisely Next Who Largely Present Present World Christians
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis
Good Tyranny Sincerely Most Oppressive May Victims
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
Truth Art You Man Be Original Try Will Become Before Nine Caring Out Tell Has-Been About Ten Having Bothers Simply Without How Been Times Often Whereas Literature Noticed Who Original Even Originality Ever
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. C. S. Lewis
War You People Obey Will Rest Our Say Claim Telling People Say Instinct Instincts Like Listen Expense Different Us Each Different Things Gratified Things
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. C. S. Lewis
You Man World Christ Only He Individually Been Died Just Just As Much Much
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis
Education God Nature You Natural Fears Meeting Ancestors Some Something My Self Various Self Mainly Come Devils Perhaps Call Forces Were Person Intended Place Which Really Now Lives Hardly Desires
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis
Hell Slope Signposts Road Underfoot Safest Gentle Without Gradual Hell Is Milestones Sudden Soft
Literature 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
Life Daily Respect Reality Become Our Adds Our Lives Simply Does Provides Literature Requires Describe Deserts Lives Daily Life Competence Necessary
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