Irish - Author | November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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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.
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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.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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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.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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