Quotes by C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, follo — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresti — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only. — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of mornin — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated. But, as it is, a cultural life wi — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was locatedwill betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true f — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can har — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Now, if we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to thi — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfis — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory