Quotes
Authors
C. S. Lewis

"Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“We all possess the need to dream.”
“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.”

Source : Recalled on his death, 4 Jun1971.
“I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.”
“Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.”
“On Saturday night, I would see men ***** after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.”
“We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.”
“A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.”
“That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?”

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