You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
C.S. LewisTag: fear wisdom courage bravery
We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
C.S. LewisTag: life education knowledge inspiration work distraction
I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical".
C.S. LewisThe Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
C.S. LewisTag: mere-christianity
Jesus Christ was either a liar, a lunatic, or He was who He said He was
C.S. LewisThere is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
C.S. LewisTag: antithesis
Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual.
C.S. LewisI do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.
C.S. LewisTag: virginity philosophy mind marriage theology mindfulness body
It's a terrible thing to have to wake four people, all older than yourself and all very tired, for the purpose of telling them something they probably won't believe and making them do something they certainly won't like.
C.S. LewisThen Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock for the death blow. But when the axe was raised, Caspian suddenly threw it away and cried out, "I have lost my queen and my son: shall I lose my friend also?" And he fell upon the Lord Drinian's neck and embraced him and both wept, as their friendship was not broken.
C.S. LewisTag: friendship love forgiveness
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