C. S. Lewis - Thought Quotes

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Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

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To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.

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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

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Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

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I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. Emotional is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.

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Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."

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