The ideas that the whole human race is, in a sense, one thing- one huge organism, like a tree-must not be confused with the idea that individual difference is not important or that real people, Tom and Nobby and Kate, are some how less important than collective things like classes, races and so forth. Indeed the two ideas are opposites. Things which are parts of a single organism may be very different form one another: things which are not, may be very alike. Six pennies are quite separate and very alike: my nose and my lungs are very different but they are only alive at all because they are parts of my body and share its common life. Christianity thinks of individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body- different from one another and each contributing what no other could.
C.S. LewisIt is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
C.S. LewisTags: reality-human-nature-temptation
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. LewisDie before you die, there is no chance after.
C.S. LewisWhat we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
C.S. LewisWe're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.
C.S. LewisTags: fantasy
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
C.S. LewisTags: digory
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C.S. LewisTags: reading religion atheism
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C.S. LewisTags: miracles
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C.S. LewisTags: love
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