 Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it. Topics: Conscience
Source: The Case for Christianity |
| Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. Topics: Conscience
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost |
| The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it. Topics: Conscience, The Heart |
| As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' Topics: Conscience
Source: The Abolition of Man |
| If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. Topics: Conscience
Source: The Abolition of Man |
| I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. Topics: Conscience
Source: The Silver Chair |
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| The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. Topics: Contentment, Joy |
| All joy emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. Topics: Contentment, Joy |
| The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end. Topics: Contentment
Source: The World's Last Night |
| Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. Topics: Contentment
Source: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature |
| To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. Topics: Contentment
Source: The World's Last Night |
| These things are not strange, Small One, though they are beyond our senses. Topics: Contentment
Source: Out of the Silent Planet |
