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Medievalist Inspirational Quotes (1480)

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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.
C. S. Lewis
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I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.
Umberto Eco
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It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
Umberto Eco
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Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
C. S. Lewis
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Peter, High King of Narnia, said Aslan. Shut the Door.
C. S. Lewis
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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
C. S. Lewis
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
C. S. Lewis
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
Umberto Eco
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We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.
C. S. Lewis
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To love is to be vulnerable.
C. S. Lewis
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis
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but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.
Umberto Eco
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He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.
C. S. Lewis
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Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
C. S. Lewis
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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.
C. S. Lewis
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If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.
Henri Pirenne
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I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.
C. S. Lewis
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
C. S. Lewis
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God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.
C. S. Lewis
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The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
C. S. Lewis
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Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.
C. S. Lewis
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No emotion is, in itself, a judgement in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
C. S. Lewis
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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it the old Christian rule is, Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.
C. S. Lewis
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I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
Umberto Eco
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