The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison it was through Pride that the devil became the devil Pride leads to every other vice it is the complete anti-God state of mind. (Clive Staples
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There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casketsafe, dark, motionless, airlessit will change. It will not be broken it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. (Clive StaplesJack) Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another 'What You, too I thought I was the only one.' (Clive Staples
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If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty but the chair does look empty, therefore there is an invisible cat in it. (Clive Staples
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It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. (Clive Staples
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'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. (Clive Staples
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