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C.S. Lewis
Nov 29, 1898 - Nov 22, 1963		 Quote Rating Average (90%)

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C.S. Lewis

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"What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard." Prayer 4.4 avg (24 votes)
"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right." Morality 4.5 avg (15 votes)
"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all." God 4.6 avg (47 votes)
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later." Morality 4.0 avg (16 votes)
"Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position." Morality 3.8 avg (9 votes)
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?" Miscellaneous 4.3 avg (16 votes)
"Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?" Theology 4.3 avg (16 votes)
"Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism." Intelligence 4.4 avg (14 votes)
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." Age 4.2 avg (33 votes)
"You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it." Philosophy 4.2 avg (24 votes)
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." Theology 4.9 avg (169 votes)
"You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built." God, Morality 4.0 avg (23 votes)
"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile." Miscellaneous 3.9 avg (19 votes)
"You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house." Morality 4.3 avg (32 votes)
"'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'" Christianity 4.4 avg (73 votes)


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