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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Tea, Reading, Enjoyment, Preferences, Simplicity

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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or

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More C.S. Lewis Quotes

“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

“Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.”

Adventure, Choices, Uncertainty, Courage, Risk

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

Tea, Books, Desire, Comfort, Reflection

“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

“For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”

Purpose, Service, Reflection, Choices, Faith

“Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.”

Eternity, Value, Spirituality, Life, Existence

“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”

Writing, Understanding, Reflection, Expression, Creativity

“Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.”

Life, Experience, Reflection, Living, Simplicity

“A little lie is like a little pregnancy; it doesn’t take long before everyone knows.”

Truth, Deception, Honesty, Consequences, Reflection

“A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.”

Loyalty, Identity, Purpose, Faith, Spirituality

“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”

Peace, Faith, Difficulties, Spirituality, Reflection

“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”

Existence, Dreams, Reflection, Philosophy, Reality

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”

Humility, Self-Reflection, Philosophy, Identity, Selflessness

“Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.”

Truth, Nonsense, Faith, Spirituality, Understanding

“Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.”

Nature, Glory, Reflection, Spirituality, Understanding

“Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.”

Truth, Inquiry, Reflection, Spirituality, Knowledge

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”

Prosperity, Identity, Materialism, Self-discovery, Worldviews

“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”

Anxiety, Spiritual Warfare, Focus, Faith, Reflection

“People talk as if grief were just a feeling – as if it weren’t the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.”

Grief, Emotion, Reflection, Loss, Understanding

“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”

Communication, Emotions, Hurt, Silence, Relationships