Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that is “finding his place in it,” while really it is finding its place in him.
– CS Lewis –
CS Lewis
My plans are made – Reepicheep
My owns plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.
– Reepicheep –
from CS Lewis’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Love Your Neighbor – CS Lewis
Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.
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We are far too easily pleased – CS Lewis
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and seek and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot image what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
– CS Lewis –
Pride, the cause of misery – CS Lewis
Pride … has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
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The Christmas Paradox – CS Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
– CS Lewis –
Give up your self to Him – CS Lewis
Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self…
– CS Lewis –
Mercy Needs Justice – CS Lewis
Mercy, detached from justice, grows unmerciful.
– CS Lewis –
Producing a New Kind of Man – CS Lewis
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.
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