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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
From Till We Have Faces
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Topic: Inspirational
We are what we believe we are!
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Topic: Inspirational
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.
From The Problem of Pain
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Topic: Religion
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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Topic: Religion
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Religion
[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
From Mere Christianity
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Topic: Religion
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Religion
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Topic: Funny
You doubt your value. Do not run from who you are.
From The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Topic: Motivational
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Happiness
I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
From The Great Divorce
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Topic: Happiness
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Death
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Death
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.
From The Abolition of Man
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Topic: Education
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
From The Silver Chair
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Topic: Religion
But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
From The Chronicles of Narnia
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Topic: Religion
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Religion
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
From The Silver Chair
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Topic: Hope
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Topic: Education
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers--or should I say, nurses?--will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Education
the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
From Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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Topic: Education
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds–making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation–men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.
From The Abolition of Man
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Topic: Education
In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. 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 with and, in the end, despair.
From Mere Christianity
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Topic: Religion
If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
From Reflections on the Psalms
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Topic: Religion
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
From Till We Have Faces
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Topic: Inspirational
We are what we believe we are!
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Topic: Inspirational
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.
From The Problem of Pain
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Topic: Religion
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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Topic: Religion
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Religion
[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
From Mere Christianity
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Topic: Religion
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Religion
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Topic: Funny
You doubt your value. Do not run from who you are.
From The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Topic: Motivational
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Happiness
I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
From The Great Divorce
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Topic: Happiness
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Death
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Death
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.
From The Abolition of Man
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Topic: Education
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
From The Silver Chair
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Topic: Religion
But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
From The Chronicles of Narnia
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Topic: Religion
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Religion
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
From The Silver Chair
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Topic: Hope
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers--or should I say, nurses?--will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Education
the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
From Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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Topic: Education
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds–making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation–men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.
From The Abolition of Man
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Topic: Education
In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. 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 with and, in the end, despair.
From Mere Christianity
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Topic: Religion
If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
From Reflections on the Psalms
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Topic: Religion
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
From Till We Have Faces
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Topic: Inspirational
We are what we believe we are!
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Topic: Inspirational
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.
From The Problem of Pain
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Topic: Religion
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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Topic: Religion
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Religion
[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
From Mere Christianity
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Topic: Religion
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Religion
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Topic: Funny
You doubt your value. Do not run from who you are.
From The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Topic: Motivational
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Happiness
I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
From The Great Divorce
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Topic: Happiness
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Death
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
From A Grief Observed
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Topic: Death
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.
From The Abolition of Man
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Topic: Education
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
From The Silver Chair
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Topic: Religion
But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
From The Chronicles of Narnia
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Topic: Religion
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Religion
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
From The Silver Chair
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Topic: Hope
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers--or should I say, nurses?--will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Topic: Education
the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
From Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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Topic: Education
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds–making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation–men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.
From The Abolition of Man
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Topic: Education
In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. 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 with and, in the end, despair.
From Mere Christianity
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Topic: Religion
If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
From Reflections on the Psalms
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Topic: Religion
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