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Letter "C" » C.S. Lewis Quotes
«Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
Age
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Keywords:
again,
be old enough,
fairy,
fairy tales,
old,
Old Enough,
reading,
readings,
start,
tales
«If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
another,
Another World,
an explanation,
desire,
discover,
experience,
explanation,
in this,
In this World,
made,
myself,
probable,
satisfy,
within
«Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
aim,
earth,
get,
heaven,
Heaven on Earth,
neither,
take aim,
thrown,
throw in,
throw out,
throw up
«No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
all told,
ever,
fear,
felt,
grief,
like,
No One,
tell on,
The Telling,
told
«When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
another,
blessing,
given,
givens,
ITS,
lose,
most,
often,
other places,
place,
This is the Place,
unexpectedly
«Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
consolations,
duty,
gladly,
listen,
religion,
shall,
submissively,
suspect,
talk,
talking,
talking to,
talk to,
talk to me
«God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
god,
pain,
paining,
pain and pleasure,
pleasures,
pleasuring,
shouts,
shout out,
take pains,
The Whisper,
whispers
«Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.»
«We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
Doubt,
God
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Keywords:
about turn,
best,
doubting,
good turn,
I doubt it,
necessarily,
out,
out to,
painful,
take turns,
The Best,
turn,
turned on,
turn out,
wondering
«He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
after,
already,
breakfast,
breakfasted,
breakfasts,
committed,
egged,
egging,
eggs,
egg on,
ham,
ham and eggs,
His,
lust,
lusted,
lusting,
lust after,
plate,
plated,
plating,
The Eggs