CS Lewis Quotes
Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals
Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.
Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.
In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.
The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.
I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.
Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Countries like Jamaica do not have a random program, so they can go months without being tested. I'm not saying anyone is on anything, but everyone needs to be on a level playing field.
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
