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C.S. Lewis Quotes
«We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
airman, emergencies, hopes, in regard to, parachute, parachutes, parachuting, regard, regards, regard as, The Emergency, use
«Enemy-occupied territory is what the world is.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
enemy, occupied, occupying, territories, territory
«It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter'.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
as well, at birth, birth, births, by birth, consequences, happens, irreversible, irrevocable, matters, no matter what happens, patience
«Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
afflictions, anxieties, before Christ, christ, defect, guiltier, guilty, He Is Guilty, not guilty, passion, regard, share, sins, The Passion
«The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
depend, depend on, feeling, given, philosophy, testimony, value
«Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
accepted, Art of, changing, faith, holding, In the Mood, moods, reason, spite, the art, The Art of Reasoning
«Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
campaign, campaigned, campaigning, campaigns, campaign of, Christianity, disguise, disguises, disguising, king, King He, landed, like kings, on land, rightful, sabotage, story, take part, The King I, The King of Kings, The Story
«Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
exercised, oppressive, sincerely, tyrannies, tyranny, victims
