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Medievalist Inspirational Quotes (1480)

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If the world is meaningless, then so are we if we mean something, we do not mean alone.
C. S. Lewis
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The absent are easily refuted.
C. S. Lewis
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Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
C. S. Lewis
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The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
C. S. Lewis
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Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
C. S. Lewis
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Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
C. S. Lewis
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Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
C. S. Lewis
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For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
C. S. Lewis
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
Ludwig Quidde
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Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Umberto Eco
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But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.
C. S. Lewis
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But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.
C. S. Lewis
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We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. Lewis
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As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.
C. S. Lewis
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C. S. Lewis
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The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.
C. S. Lewis
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And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.
C. S. Lewis
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C. S. Lewis
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Prosperity knits a man to the world.
C. S. Lewis
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Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
C. S. Lewis
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To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.
C. S. Lewis
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But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
C. S. Lewis
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What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.
C. S. Lewis
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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).
C. S. Lewis
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