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C.S. Lewis7 quotes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C.S. Lewis · 1942The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis · 1944We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis · 1942It is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? — C.S. Lewis · 1955Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But don't let us come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He hasn't left that open to us. He didn't intend to. — C.S. Lewis · 1942All 7 quotes →