Irish - Author | November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963
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
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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.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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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.
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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.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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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.
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