The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.
Freedom always comes with a price. - C. S. Lewis
Freedom always comes with a price.
- C. S. Lewis
Things always work according to their nature. - C. S. Lewis
Things always work according to their nature.
Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven. - C. S. Lewis
Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks - C. S. Lewis
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. - C. S. Lewis
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever. - C. S. Lewis
When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. - C. S. Lewis
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But to speak of the craft itself, I would… - C. S. Lewis
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But to speak of the craft itself, I would…
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - C. S. Lewis
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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