Quotes about t
thinking years people
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. C. S. Lewis
thinking heaven earth
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.
thinking different body
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.
thinking giving needs
When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
thinking want want-u
I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
thinking earth screwtape-letters
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
thinking views sanity
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?
taken party office
Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?
teacher taken use
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
temptation looks facts
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
trying nine telling-the-truth
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.
teacher jobs real
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
tests translate understood
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
teacher jesus son
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
tired space may
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.
temptation needed hardest
We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist
two combination acquire
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
talking not-talking
Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.
teacher real teaching
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
thinking people want
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
thinking achievement world
The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
train-of-thought waiting temptation
We 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.
taste horror human-life
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
truth-is norm truth-and-falsehood
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
two way poet
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
truth lying myth
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
taken burden-of-proof morality
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
tyrants liberty
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.
tombstone men endure
Man must endure his going hence.
time growing-up years
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
time done enough
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
time space law
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
teaching appreciate people
In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.