He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
C. S. LewisIf conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions โ if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before โ then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
C. S. LewisOne of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
C. S. LewisNot my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the prรฉcis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.
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