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(1898 - 1963) Verified "Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result." Source: preface to Paradise Lost. Quotes from his letters Letters to Malcolm It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. 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. Quotes from his books Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. "He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools." The Weight of Glory "Perfect humility dispenses with modesty." "As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism." "We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." "100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased." The Case for Christianity "This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people." "Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it." "Badness is only spoiled goodness." "Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness." "Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal." "Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment." "There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth." My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. "Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred." 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.” The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they “own” their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. Attributed All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.
Verified "Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result." Source: preface to Paradise Lost. Quotes from his letters Letters to Malcolm It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. 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. Quotes from his books Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. "He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools." The Weight of Glory "Perfect humility dispenses with modesty." "As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism." "We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." "100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased." The Case for Christianity "This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people." "Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it." "Badness is only spoiled goodness." "Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness." "Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal." "Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment." "There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth." My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. "Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred." 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.” The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they “own” their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. Attributed All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.
Letters to Malcolm It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. 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. Quotes from his books Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. "He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools." The Weight of Glory "Perfect humility dispenses with modesty." "As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism." "We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." "100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased." The Case for Christianity "This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people." "Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it." "Badness is only spoiled goodness." "Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness." "Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal." "Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment." "There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth." My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. "Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred." 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.” The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they “own” their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. Attributed All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. "He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools." The Weight of Glory "Perfect humility dispenses with modesty." "As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism." "We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." "100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased." The Case for Christianity "This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people." "Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it." "Badness is only spoiled goodness." "Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness." "Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal." "Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment." "There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth." My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. "Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred." 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.” The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they “own” their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. Attributed All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.