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C. S. Lewis
Irish Author
Born: Nov 29, 1898
Died: Nov 22, 1963
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. C. S. Lewis
Good History People Good Things Bad People Bad Things Bad Somehow Something Wrong Doing Trying Goes Quite Just Story Much Things
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
You Regret World Better Kind Better Things Leave Been Than Any Behind Should Things
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
Happiness Love Affection Whatever Our Nine-Tenths Our Lives Solid Responsible Durable Lives
Some 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
Faith People Passion Christ Some People Our Guilty Some About Take Share Feel Like Sins Afflictions Anxieties Regard Them Defect
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis
Truth Natural Organ Imagination Order Natural Order Meaning Reason
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. Lewis
Elsewhere Earth Never Spread Pray Escapes Human Race Human Race Iniquity
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C. S. Lewis
Man Atheist Reading Young Too Remain Wishes Sound His Cannot Young Man Who Careful
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? C. S. Lewis
Happiness Life God Thoughts Surrender Will Own Everyone Our Everything Remains Take Well Make Call Him How Sources False Going While Turn Then Us Interests Noticed Hard Less Agreeable Away Plausible
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. C. S. Lewis
Inspirational World Miracles Too See Some Small Written Very Same Same Story Story Which Us Across Large Whole Letters
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis
Day You Grief Speak Reflection Live Living Every Thinking Shadow About Only Fact Misery Part Merely Endless Each Each Day Keep Suffer
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
Man Pride Listening Wife Reading Christian Lying Humility Bach State Temperance Eating Higher Go His Than Thankfulness Infinitely Standards Who Preparing Plato Sleep
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. C. S. Lewis
You Try Language Else Clear Make Sure Always Quite Anything Anything Else Mean Sentence Use Your
If 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
Eyes Dark Light Universe Out Would Would-Be Never Know Without Were Just Meaning Should Therefore Whole Found Creatures
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. C. S. Lewis
God Satan Leader Devils Opposite Michael Dictator
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis
Love Miracles Power Own Seeing Gives Through Disenchanted Being
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. C. S. Lewis
You Writing Strong Result Lust Out Must Come Like Does Itch Very Get Impulse Scratching
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
You Words Word Big Too Otherwise Say About Something Talk Subject Left Very Infinite Infinitely Want Mean Really Use
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
Time Animal World Animals Half Spirit Spirits Eternal Inhabit Belong Humans
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. Lewis
Joy Sometimes Pleasures Wonder Substitutes Whether
'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' C. S. Lewis
Lion Myself Day Try Mind Picture One Day Carrying About Had Since Make Said Been Umbrella Began Sixteen Wood Story Then Forty
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. C. S. Lewis
Somewhere Everything Possible Exception Begins
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. C. S. Lewis
God Think Easily Finds Mortal Nonsense Questions Quite Which Ask Should
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. C. S. Lewis
Nature Man Men Power Other Out Some Some Men Over Instrument Call Turns
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C. S. Lewis
Humble People Problem Some Real Pious Real Problem Suffer Why Believing
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. C. S. Lewis
Work Faith Me Dangerous Debate Own Nothing Seems Unreal More Doctrine Than Just Public Successfully Defended
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. C. S. Lewis
Easier Bore See Go Pray Pray For Than Much
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