Will Lewis
Will Lewis
William Lewis or Willie Lewis may refer to:...
mean people dentist
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
strong believe life-and-death
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?
demand deeds rewards
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
children kind silliness
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
sacrifice great-wisdom without-sacrifice
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
player thinking games
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
screwtape-letters amusing
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
gnats people gods-and-goddesses
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
lying serious truthful
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
grief frustration thinking
I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.
humility inability forget
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.
writing mean rose
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
might cups three
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
beautiful voice nephew
A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.