Author of quotes: Clive Staples Lewis

He knew from the beginning that my temple was a house of cards. And the only way to make me understand it is to destroy it.

Each person agrees that forgiveness is a wonderful thing, until he himself is faced with the alternative of forgiving or not forgiving, when forgiveness should come from him.

Of all the bad people, the worst are the bad religious people.

The main thing is to direct his anger towards his immediate neighbors, whom he sees every day, and to move kindness to the periphery so that he thinks that he feels it towards those whom he does not know at all. Then the anger will become a real wave, and the imaginary kindness.

I dreamed of building things with my own hands: ships, houses, motors, but instead I had to write stories.

The enemy's ideal is a person who, having worked a day for the benefit of future generations (if this is his vocation), in the evening postpones all care, completely entrusting himself to heaven, and remains only with the patience and gratitude that are required of him here and now. We need a person tormented by the nightmares of the future, persecuted by the ideas of an impending paradise or hell on earth, ready to transgress the Enemy's commandments now if we convince him that by doing this he will bring closer or avert something that he will not even see in his lifetime. We would like the human race to constantly and in terrible agony try to grab the mind with its hands, so that this race would never be honest, kind and happy, and that everything given to it in the present would be carried to the altar of future times.

Let people consider the embellished version of what the Enemy promises only as a result of marriage as the basis of marriage. Two not bad possibilities follow from this at once. First, people who do not have the gift of abstinence can be deterred from marriage, because they are not “in love” - thanks to us, the idea of marriage “not for love” will seem low or cynical to them. Yes, yes, they think so. They believe that the intention to marry for mutual assistance, the protection of chastity and procreation is lower than an accidental storm of feelings. (Do not neglect the opportunity, make your patient consider the rite of marriage very imperfect.) Secondly, any sexual attraction that tends to marriage will be considered "love", and love of this kind will excuse any sin and, quite possibly, provoke marriage to a woman completely worldly, stupid or depraved.

I believe that when one hears a story of terrible cruelty, their anger is a completely wrong reaction to it and just a waste of energy that should be directed in a different direction. Maybe he's just sprinkling his conscience, which, if he woke up, would ask him, "Well? What do you do about it? How much of your life have you spent fighting this? Are you helping to create a social environment where things like this kind won't happen!?"

Friendship is useless, like philosophy or art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

Whether it is necessary to pay attention to people who are trying to make the Christian hope of "heaven" when they say,
what they do not want to spend eternity playing the harp. These men I answer, that if they cannot understand books written for adults, you should not talk about them.
All the images in Scripture (harps, crowns, gold) is simply an attempt to Express the inexpressible. Musical instruments are mentioned in the Bible because to many people (not all) music best conveys vostorgina and a sense of infinity. The crowns say that those who are United with God in eternity share His splendour and power and joy. Gold symbolizes timelessness (because it does not rust) and enduring value. People who understand all of these characters literally, with the same success could have thought that, advising us to be as doves, Christ wanted us to be carrying eggs.

When we understand what freedom of the will, it seems stupid question I once asked: "Why did God created man out of such rotten stuff that it immediately became worthless?" The better the material of which the creation is made it smarter, stronger and freer the better it will be, if you're heading on the right path, and even worse, choosing the wrong way. A cow cannot be very good or very bad; a dog can be both better and worse; in more may be better or worse than a child; even more than the child can be better or worse than an ordinary adult, and even more - a man of genius; sverhtermicheskoy same spirit can be either the worst or the best of everything.

That's one of the reasons why I came to Christianity. It is a religion you could think of. If Christianity has offered you this explanation of the Universe, what we have always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But unlike this religion on someone else's invention. Christianity peculiar to that strange curve, which is typical for a real, objectively existing things. So forget the children's philosophy, this addiction to too-simple answers.

- Equality is still not the most important.
- And I thought - thing, ' said Jane. - Because people are, in fact, equal.
- You were wrong - he said seriously. - That in essence they are not equal. They are equal before the law, and it was good. Equality protects them, but does not create. It's a medicine, not food.

A sin against obedience, for love is short, and you have lost the love of sinning against the obedience.