Some Random CS Lewis quotes
"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."
--The Weight of Glory
"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
--The Case for Christianity
"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."
--The Case for Christianity
"Badness is only spoiled goodness."
--The Case for Christianity
"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
--The Abolition of Man
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
--The Abolition of Man
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
--The Abolition of Man
"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy."
--The Abolition of Man
"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done..."
--from a letter "To Mrs. L." (50)
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
--The Problem of Pain
"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."
--The Problem of Pain
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
--The Problem of Pain
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
--The Problem of Pain
Comment what you think about them, whether you agree or disagree. I like knowing that I make people think occasionlly.
posted by Dr. Austiagon @ 1:09 PM
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7 Comments:
So I guess that no one who reads my blog ever thinks, it is just a distraction from reality.
i read it austin. just because we don't comment doesn't mean we don't read. some of us prefer to lurk in the background i guess.
like storie time. no one ever comments there.
Well if you're going to whine about it...
This might not be the kind of thinking you wish to inspire but the first quote reminds me of this other one I read, not by C.S. Lewis, which is "life is a sexually transmitted disease." I don't really know how it reminded me of it, but it did.
In the one about the heart and the head, is the one that should be obeying the other the heart or the head...? I'm confused.
I have heard that quote before in biology and i think it is awesome because it is an abstract way to describe reality. It is stating that the heart should obey the mind.
why were they talking about it in biology?
austin, i need some help.
Go ahead and call me kate, I should be home most of thursday working on homework.
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