But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
C. S. Lewis[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
C. S. LewisIt is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
C. S. Lewisuntil the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, Iโm going to have to do this sort of thing.
C. S. LewisWe must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.
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