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 by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
- Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
- Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
- Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
- Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
- The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
- “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
- “Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It’s like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can’t trust my own thinking, of course I can’t trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.”
Mark Twain:
- It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
- It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.