C. S. Lewis Quotes About Inspirational
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Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.
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Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
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The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.
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It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
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Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable.
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
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The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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