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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.


C. S. Lewis


#christianity #false #importance #important #infinite

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.


C. S. Lewis


#christian #eating #go #higher #his

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


C. S. Lewis


#good #may #most #oppressive #sincerely

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.


C. S. Lewis


#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.


C. S. Lewis


#elsewhere #escapes #human #human race #iniquity

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

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!


Daniel Day-Lewis


#capacity #developed #else #highly #i

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.


Damian Lewis


#feel #gags #guilty #i #just

Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth.


Maurice Maeterlinck


#truth #beauty

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.


Damian Lewis


#actor #avoiding #become #becoming #being