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Medievalist Inspirational Quotes (1480)

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This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.
C. S. Lewis
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In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
C. S. Lewis
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Selfishness has never been admired.
C. S. Lewis
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If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
C. S. Lewis
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
C. S. Lewis
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
C. S. Lewis
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The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.
C. S. Lewis
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We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
C. S. Lewis
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There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
C. S. Lewis
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The wise man does not discriminate he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
Umberto Eco
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A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.
C. S. Lewis
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
C. S. Lewis
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God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like like players in one band, or organs in one body.
C. S. Lewis
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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
Ludwig Quidde
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To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
C. S. Lewis
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You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
Umberto Eco
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I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
C. S. Lewis
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It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
C. S. Lewis
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You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.
C. S. Lewis
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We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
C. S. Lewis
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
C. S. Lewis
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Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
C. S. Lewis
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No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.
C. S. Lewis
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To survive, you must tell stories.
Umberto Eco
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