The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.
C.S. LewisEros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C.S. LewisYou can't know, you can only believe - or not.
C.S. LewisThe longest way round is the shortest way home.
(Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
Stichwörter: inspirational
Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: christianity
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: children childhood maturity adult
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: god effort surrender
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: god
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C.S. LewisRelying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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