#w

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

— C. S. Lewis

#ever #given #nothing #really #will

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#humble #people #pious #problem #real

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#disenchanted #enchantments #gives #love #miracles

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#campaigning #devil #dull #excellent #long

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#different #different things #each #expense #gratified

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#joy #pleasures #sometimes #substitutes #whether

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#equator #everything #exception #possible #possible exception

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#exercised #instrument #man #men #nature

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#before #began #done #got #had

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

— C. S. Lewis

#entire #hidden #marriage #reconciles #sexes