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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Tea, Books, Desire, Comfort, Reflection

You can never get a cup of tea large enough

You can never get a cup of tea large enough

You can never get a cup of tea large enough

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More C.S. Lewis Quotes

“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”

Gender, Marriage, Relationships, Intimacy, Conflict

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

Literature, Reality, Creativity, Enrichment, Life

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

Education, Growth, Reflection, Knowledge, Progress

“Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.”

Faith, Apologetics, Belief, Debate, Uncertainty

“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.”

Faith, Scripture, Reflection, Spirituality, Understanding

“Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”

Friendship, Love, Connection, Understanding, Authenticity

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”

Religion, Comfort, Authenticity, Faith, Reflection

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

Integrity, Morality, Character, Ethics, Reflection

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”

Reason, Imagination, Truth, Meaning, Reflection

“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

Education, Civilization, Reflection, Knowledge, Progress

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

Belief, Faith, Truth, Crisis, Life

“I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

Behavior, Reflection, Expectation, Humanity, Integrity

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”

Family, Joy, Togetherness, Reflection, Life

“I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.”

Self-image, Description, Identity, Humor, Perception

“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”

Forgiveness, Humility, Self-acceptance, Spirituality, Morality

“You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.”

Perception, Insight, Philosophy, Awareness, Reality

“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ.”

Anxiety, Faith, Reflection, Affliction, Understanding

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”

Giving, Ownership, Generosity, Values, Spirituality

“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”

Society, Individuality, Perspective, Choice, Courage

“We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.”

Christianity, Faith, Salvation, Sin, Belief