Tag Archives: C.S. Lewis

Thought For the Day: If We Find Ourselves With A Desire That Nothing In This World Can Satisfy, the Most Probable Explanation Is That We Were Made For Another World

Posted on April 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity”

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Thought For the Day: Christianity, If False Is Of No Importance, and, If True, of Infinite Importance. The One Thing It Cannot Be Is Moderately Important

Posted on April 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C.S. Lewis

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Thought For the Day: All That We Call Human History…Is the Long Terrible Story of Man Trying To Find Something Other Than God Which Will Make Him Happy

Posted on November 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“All that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

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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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