Irish - Author | November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
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We are what we believe we are.
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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.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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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.
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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.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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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.
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