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«There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
intensely, marry, one of them, Only You, persuade, render, several, The Christian
«An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
by fits and starts, cinema, fit to, meat, nose, sorts
«Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
animal, animals, Animal World, belong, belong to, eternal, half, half time, humans, inhabit, inhabits, spirit, spirits, spirit world, The Eternal
«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.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Literature,
Reality
| Keywords:
adds, competencies, competency, daily, describe, deserting, deserts, enriches, enriching, irrigate, irrigates, literature, provides, requires, Through the Desert
«Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
break, in fact, Laws, Laws of nature, Miracles, the laws of nature
«If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
backing, beasts, capitalists, criminals, cut, cut up, imbeciles, logical, prevent, reasons, struggle, The Criminals
«No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
arrangement, clever, eggs, good egg, omelet, The Arrangement
«Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is»
«The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
aged, campaigning, middle-aged, monotonous, weather
«??when the whole group is together, each brining out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions?when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freedmen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life- natural life- has no better gift to give.?»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
affection, ago, at the same time, claim, enfold, enfolded, enfolding, equals, First Group, funniest, golden, group, meeting of minds, mellows, natural world, opens, Sessions, The Others, wisest
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