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Thought For the Day: Of All Tyrannies A Tyranny Sincerely Exercised For the Good of Its Victim May Be the Most Oppressive

Posted on October 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” – C.S. Lewis

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Thought For the Day: The Question About Progress Has Become the Question Whether We Can Discovery Any Way of Submitting To the Worldwide Paternalism of A Technocracy Without Losing All Personal Privacy and Independence

Posted on June 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State’s … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Of All Tyrannies, A Tyranny Sincerely Exercised For the Good of Its Victims May Be the Most Oppressive

Posted on October 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” – C. S. Lewis

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Thought For the Day: Integrity Is Doing the Right Thing Even When No One Is Watching

Posted on November 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.” – C.S. Lewis

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Thought For the Day: God Can’t Give Us Peace and Happiness Apart From Himself Because There Is No Such Thing

Posted on November 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” – C.S.Lewis

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Thought For the Day: Affliction is Often That Thing Which Prepares An Ordinary Person For Some Sort of An Extraordinary Destiny

Posted on November 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

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Thought For the Day: Humility Is Not Thinking Less of Yourself, It’s Thinking of Yourself Less

Posted on August 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” – C. S. Lewis

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Thought of the Day: We Laugh At Honor and Are Shocked To Find Traitors In our Midst

Posted on March 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” – C.S. Lewis

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Thought For the Day: We Not Only Want To See Beauty But To Become Part of It

Posted on January 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“‘We do not want merely to see beauty… we want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: A Benevolent Tyranny Is Perhaps the Most Oppressive

Posted on July 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” – C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

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