CS Lewis Quotes
Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.
Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.
Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud.
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.
Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.
Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.
You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.
At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'
when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!
The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.