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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.


C. S. Forester

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C. S. CALVERLEY Study first Propriety: for she is indeed the Pole-star.
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C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
C. S. LEWIS My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repe...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 It may be possible for each of us to th...
C. S. LEWIS If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting tha...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 An essential part of ...
C. S. LEWIS Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses,...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabet...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Wri...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 The very activities for which we were created are, while we...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 Can we believe that God ever modifies His act...
C. S. LEWIS If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad be...
C. S. LEWIS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We ...
C. S. LEWIS Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without atte...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who t...
C. S. LEWIS I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. LEWIS Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressiv...
C. S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C. S. LEWIS The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian mo...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Joseph of Nazareth The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue o...
C. S. LEWIS How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C. S. LEWIS There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those t...
C. S. LEWIS The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he doe...
C. S. LEWIS It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. LEWIS Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. LEWIS A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...
C. S. LEWIS ...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't...
C. S. LEWIS I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. LEWIS Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward s...
C. S. LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don&#...
C. S. LEWIS There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom G...
C. S. LEWIS An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C. S. LEWIS If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...
C. S. LEWIS Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it ...
C. S. LEWIS Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. LEWIS 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wo...
C. S. LEWIS As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. ... C...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 A Christian and an unbelieving poe...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
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