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“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
“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
Art
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C. S. Lewis
Motivational
“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
— C. S. Lewis
Imagination
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
— C. S. Lewis
Education
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
— C. S. Lewis
Religion
“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
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
— C. S. Lewis
Failure
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
— C. S. Lewis
Nature
“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
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
— C. S. Lewis
Good
“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
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
— C. S. Lewis
God
“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
— C. S. Lewis
Marriage
“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
“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
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
— C. S. Lewis
Future
“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
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
— C. S. Lewis
God
“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.”
— C. S. Lewis
Birthday
“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”
— C. S. Lewis
Friendship