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Medievalist Inspirational Quotes (1480)

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when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
C. S. Lewis
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He cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
C. S. Lewis
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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
C. S. Lewis
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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
C. S. Lewis
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Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.
C. S. Lewis
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Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
C. S. Lewis
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The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco
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The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.
C. S. Lewis
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Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
C. S. Lewis
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A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
Umberto Eco
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. Lewis
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But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
Umberto Eco
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The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.
C. S. Lewis
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All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
C. S. Lewis
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Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C. S. Lewis
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In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them they are terribly practical.
C. S. Lewis
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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C. S. Lewis
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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
Umberto Eco
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
Umberto Eco
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
Ludwig Quidde
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Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.
C. S. Lewis
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The truth is an anagram of an anagram.
Umberto Eco
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How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.
Umberto Eco
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Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
C. S. Lewis
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