But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes.
C.S. LewisTo what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
C.S. LewisBut the truth is God has not told us His arrangement about the other people are. We do know that no man can be saved except through Christ; we do not know that only those who know Him can be saved through Him.
C.S. LewisThe mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
C.S. LewisNo interviews without appointments except between nine and ten PM on the second Saturdays.
C.S. LewisThe Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.
C.S. LewisFor his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
C.S. LewisA powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.
C.S. LewisOf course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay I have been describing, and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and (the) in the end, despair.
C.S. LewisTag: truth christianity
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
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