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Nov 29, 1898 - Nov 22, 1963	Quote Rating Average (90%) Author Rating (88%) Groups: Writers Nationlity: British nationals	C.S. Lewis Quotes: (ranking: 620th) Search C.S. Lewis's quotes
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"Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire."	Christianity
"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."	Morality
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."	Christianity
"I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare."	Charity
"I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation."	Christianity
"If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself."	God, Work
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."	God
"If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business."	Experience
"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset."	Science
"If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?"	God
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."	God
"If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'"	Religion
"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."	Miscellaneous
"If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them."	Philosophy
"If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally."	Theology
"If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?"	Theology
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."	Truth & Lies
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."	Christianity
"If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."	Life & Death, Love
"In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say."	Thinking

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