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There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.


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C.S. LEWIS It is always the novice who exaggerates.
C.S. LEWIS Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.
C.S. LEWIS I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it eno...
C.S. LEWIS Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a...
C.S. LEWIS for those who come so far. Some call this island the World's End, for though you can sail further, t...
C.S. LEWIS When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him...
C.S. LEWIS But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jeal...
C.S. LEWIS ... "I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked". The Chr...
C.S. LEWIS Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderst...
C.S. LEWIS If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the wa...
C.S. LEWIS After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first help...
C.S. LEWIS God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our wor...
C.S. LEWIS I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plu...
C.S. LEWIS That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converte...
C.S. LEWIS While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society h...
C.S. LEWIS When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving li...
C.S. LEWIS I think you've seen Aslan," said Edmund.
"Aslan!" said Eustace. "I've heard that name mentioned...
C.S. LEWIS Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?'
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C.S. LEWIS This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narni...
C.S. LEWIS Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made th...
C.S. LEWIS Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C.S. LEWIS I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itse...
C.S. LEWIS When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at...
C.S. LEWIS The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the compl...
C.S. LEWIS Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
C.S. LEWIS The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.
C.S. LEWIS A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
C.S. LEWIS Moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a bre...
C.S. LEWIS Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
C.S. LEWIS No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet
C.S. LEWIS But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves
C.S. LEWIS Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do ...
C.S. LEWIS The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exist...
C.S. LEWIS All Narnia, many-colored with lawns and rocks and heather and different sorts of trees, lay spread o...
C.S. LEWIS I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of...
C.S. LEWIS Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as ...
C.S. LEWIS One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.
C.S. LEWIS Do not dare not to dare.
C.S. LEWIS Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.
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