| A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. |
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- C.S. Lewis |
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| If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. |
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- C.S. Lewis |
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| Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. |
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- C.S. Lewis |
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| Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. |
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- C.S. Lewis |
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| A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. |
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- C.S. Lewis |
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| There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." |
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- C.S. Lewis |
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| The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. |
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- C.S. Lewis |
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