CS Lewis Quotes
To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.
Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.
Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.
Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.
A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.
If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer.It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .
I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.
Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.
An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.
