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Medievalist Inspirational Quotes (1480)

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Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
C. S. Lewis
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The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.
C. S. Lewis
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If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.
C. S. Lewis
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Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
C. S. Lewis
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My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.
C. S. Lewis
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She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.
C. S. Lewis
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In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .
Umberto Eco
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We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
C. S. Lewis
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
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If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
C. S. Lewis
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I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
C. S. Lewis
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I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
C. S. Lewis
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I was with book, as a woman is with child.
C. S. Lewis
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. Lewis
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The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
C. S. Lewis
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Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
C. S. Lewis
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When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
Umberto Eco
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Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.
C. S. Lewis
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church
C. S. Lewis
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Safe?” said Mr. Beaver “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.
C. S. Lewis
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
Umberto Eco
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When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.
C. S. Lewis
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Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
C. S. Lewis
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...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.
C. S. Lewis
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