You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
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Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? – C.S. Lewis
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to…
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation…
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to…
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to…
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given…
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only ’mouth honour’ and that decreasingly.
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be…
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills…
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
This moment contains all moments. – C.S. Lewis
This moment contains all moments.
There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God ’Thy will be done’ and those to whom…
There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God ’Thy will be done’ and those to whom God will say ’Thy will be done.’
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. – C.S. Lewis
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
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