Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.


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When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the ...
C. S. LEWIS
I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly b...
C. S. LEWIS
Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 An essential part of ...
C. S. LEWIS
Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We must never speak to simple, ex...
C. S. LEWIS
Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 If the [Incarnation] ha...
C. S. LEWIS
If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad be...
C. S. LEWIS
In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the L...
C. S. LEWIS
Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowaday...
C. S. LEWIS
Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 The very strength and ...
C. S. LEWIS
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is...
C. S. LEWIS
Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses,...
C. S. LEWIS
Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 What mak...
C. S. LEWIS
Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Wri...
C. S. LEWIS
Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabet...
C. S. LEWIS
Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if ...
C. S. LEWIS
Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Continuing a short se...
C. S. LEWIS
Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 The [Christian] "doctrines" are translation...
C. S. LEWIS
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and o...
C. S. LEWIS
Feast of the Conversion of Paul If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest h...
C. S. LEWIS
Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 To excuse what can really produce good excuses is...
C. S. LEWIS
Easter Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any l...
C. S. LEWIS
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. LEWIS
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. LEWIS
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. LEWIS
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other me...
C. S. LEWIS
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outsi...
C. S. LEWIS
You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE
This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. FORESTER
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service an...
C. S. FORESTER
The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with...
C. S. FORESTER
Novel writing wrecks homes.
C. S. FORESTER
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. FORESTER
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. FORESTER
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together l...
C. S. FORESTER
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes ...
C. S. FORESTER
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Ho...
C. S. FORESTER
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford...
C. S. FORESTER
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. FORESTER
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accor...
C. S. FORESTER
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Mus...
C. S. FORESTER
With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her...
C. S. FORESTER
There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
C. S. FORESTER
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can alway...
C. S. FORESTER
Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!
S. C. HALL
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. ROBINSON
What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my d...
S. C. GWYNNE
The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and...
C. S. FORESTER
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C S ROBINSON
True love makes the imperfect to perfect .... otherwise love is not true.....
BASIL C S
We can fight with our destiny ...but one day you should be ready to admit it , surrender to it ........
BASIL C S
The Destiny of a good man is to live for self actualization
BASIL C S
If Love is not powerful , what else is .......!!!
BASIL C S
Get out, you blazing ass! / Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me!
C. S. CALVERLEY
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY
The boy, a bare-legged beggarly son of a gun.
C. S. CALVERLEY
I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, / Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours.
C. S. CALVERLEY
Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals.
C. S. CALVERLEY
Meaning, however, is no great matter.
C. S. CALVERLEY