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IustusPeccator: "Nowhere outside the minds of devils and bad men is there a 'sic volo, sic iubeo.' The universe itself is a constitutional monarchy. The Almighty Himself repudiates the sort of sovereignty that Tyndale thinks fit for Henry VIII"
-C.S Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth C.
dgwarfield: That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis In his usual polished prose, the author creates an elaborate satiric picture of a war between morality and devilry.
lswarfieldmusic: That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis In his usual polished prose, the author creates an elaborate satiric picture of a war between morality and devilry.
Wombat389: Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis, Scientism, and the Restoration of Man
societycatho: Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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7CWZUiKQ: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
BJColem77570727: C.S. Lewis wrote an excellent book, “The Great Divorce,” about God allowing bus trips for deceased souls between Heaven & Hell; most Hell residents refused to stay but went back to Hell. Highly recommended read.
effertzjss: C S Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet BXUN85W
INIXMIA5_1415: “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis
CraterLabs: This reminds me of C.S. Lewis' comment about the problem of immortality, how it leads to fads and traditions of certain people in certain places and times outlasting their natural lifespans, causing fads and behaviors that should change or diversify to become inhuman.
TheHappiestPost: You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ C.S. Lewis
Gyessse64: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S Lewis
Selyn189: “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
MissBecky4Kids: 5 of 5 stars to Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Greenbow19: Read how prescient C.S. Lewis was in 1959.
FebsFriendFams: “Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."” - C.S. Lewis, The
SeanBazz12: Vs. Lefty
1Corbin Carroll LF
2Ketel Marte 2B
3Jake McCarthy RF
4Christian Walker 1B
5Lourdes Gurriel Jr. DH
6Evan Longoria 3B
7Kyle Lewis CF
8Gabriel Moreno C
9Nick Ahmed SS
Jose Herrera on my bench filling in for Carson Kelly while he's out
WhiteShieldmai3: 6. It will not be long before what you are hearing from both Democrats and Republicans will take on an added mean, as I creep along her. I enjoyed C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity". But it was basically useless. Let me explain. The key to yor fulfillment of God's grace provisions.
GrahamLowery4: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
FrnsthDF: What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. -C.S. Lewis
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Deepfryguy76: C.S. Lewis
Hustlingmind: “Love is never wasted. For its value does not rest upon its reciprocity.”
~C.S. Lewis
lightupnow1: friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: what? you too? I thought I was the only one - C,S Lewis
BrentonDana: New Post: A Rationale for Teaching C.S. Lewis’ Fiction in The Wrong Order
GoldenQuotesEN: The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
Farrins54: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
lauraav116: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S Lewis
WhiteShieldmai3: 7. C.S. Lewis was a brilliant thinker. But "Mere Christianty" was an attempted to reach God consciousness through rationality. This introduces several things. One of which will help me weed out any troublemakers here. First, there are 3 basic systems of human perception.
Lewisquots: “It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.” - C.S. Lewis
FrnsthDF: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’ -C.S. Lewis
FRANSETH AMagicalProm
BarnabasPiper: KINDLE DEAL: "All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927" - these are remarkable insights into the formative years of Lewis coming out of WW1.
TheStoryofWith: “Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace,
is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells,
to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell,
they cannot be interested in God at all
but only in what they say about Him.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Bendettaa20: “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
azshehriazozd89: “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” — C.S. Lewis
StephanHernand5: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
GenesisBankuti: In this day and age it's academia that will be our undoing. That is where all far left insanity originates from. Pride is unbridled and pride - according to C.S. Lewis - is the cardinal sin.
JimBobW49: C S Lewis. Seems to be very applicable in 2023
wise_insights4u: After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. -C.S. Lewis
CSLewisDaily: “When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.” - C.S. Lewis
w_k_kirkland: “Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.” - C. S. Lewis (“The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment” essay)
BlastedFamous: C. S. Lewis captured the universe is a traum Fear is to feel it's unhealthy to me?
AlejandraPatel4: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
_hiko__01: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S Lewis
Dq4QY: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
KathleenPalm: "Kathleen Palm’s Into the Gray reads like Guillermo Del Toro travelled back in time and told C.S. Lewis to bugger off because he could write Narnia a whole lot better thank you very much."
Best line in a review EVER.
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qRnL5: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S Lewis
Timeeus194: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S Lewis
ififonly: If you haven't met opposition from Satan recently, you're probably going his way. - C.S. Lewis
Lorettobaseball: Loretto (7-3, 2-0) defeats Lewis Co. (4-5, 0-2) 13-3.
SP - Clint Seymore (W) 4.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 5 K’s, Kade Lay 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER.
Hitters: C. Roberson 3-3, 3 1B’s, 1 RBI, C. Daniel 3-4, 3 1B’s, 2 RBI’s, C. Pope 2 1B’s, 4 RBI’s, F. Duke 2 1B’s, 2 RBI’s, M. Moore 2B.
RamiahLazo: "Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." — C.S. Lewis
jonbrodyharris: If I ever wrote anything half as good as a Steven Lewis op-ed, I think I’d just retire. This is a banger.
Michael14526489: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
monacoinlovers: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
Gaffika63: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
susancain: Have you ever experienced what C.S. Lewis called “the inconsolable longing” for “we know not what”?
This longing, which feels like a piercing joy, often comes during moments of almost unbearable beauty.
It’s one of the most important things that will ever happen to us.
Lewisquots: “Forgiveness does not mean excusing.” - C.S. Lewis
d08890: ... included — as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred."
-- C.S. Lewis
NeilShenvi: “to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.” - C.S. Lewis
hUjvPefb: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
RufusSidorova: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S Lewis
amoebasprk: Ransom, the philologist hero of C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet who is kidnapped and taken to another planet, initially finds his scholarship useless in his new surroundings, and just tries to survive the beautiful new world.
TimBall4IHS: Faith? Or TRUST? Faith is far better defined as trust. Otherwise the word comes across as hope on a good guess.
As C.S. Lewis points out, we believe by authority on the knowledge of an honest person. I've never been to Germany but I believe on authority (trust) it exists.
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Braydenkylegun2: “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” – C. S. Lewis
topworldcoach: “You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis
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mintalviharju83: “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ―C.S. Lewis
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ―Rumi
“I can and I will. Watch me.” ―Carrie Green
ohheymeghan_: "I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her name was grief" -C.S. Lewis
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joeljmiller: I was today years old when I discovered C.S. Lewis published A Grief Observed in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk. When he died two years later, the book was reissued under his own name.
PlsLeave123: I might get flack for the slightest C. S. Lewis criticism, but I have to say my peace. If you have to read the book for the title to make sense, it’s not a good title.
MWaltonia: As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? ~C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
stevenfhayward: "The trouble about writing satire is that the real world always anticipates you, and what were meant for exaggeration turn out to be nothing of the sort."
—C.S. Lewis, 1945
CSLewisDaily: “God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.” - C.S. Lewis
JeromeBailey7: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S Lewis
VVIP_Azat24: “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
pemburucoin20: “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
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j7TX21: “How can a good God allow bad things to happen?”
Bibi19713: “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes,
but when we look back everything is different.”
C.S. Lewis
