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Undefeated Motivation

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Undefeated Motivation
“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, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” -C. S. Lewis
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” -C. S. Lewis
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” -C. S. Lewis
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” -C. S. Lewis
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” -C. S. Lewis
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point to move on.” -C. S. Lewis
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point to move on.” -C. S. Lewis
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” -C. S. Lewis
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” -C. S. Lewis
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C. S. Lewis
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C. S. Lewis
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” -C. S. Lewis
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” -C. S. Lewis
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -C. S. Lewis
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -C. S. Lewis
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” -C. S. Lewis
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” -C. S. Lewis
“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” -C. S. Lewis
“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” -C. S. Lewis
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.'” -C. S. Lewis
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’” -C. S. Lewis
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” -C. S. Lewis
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” -C. S. Lewis
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” -C. S. Lewis
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” -C. S. Lewis
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C. S. Lewis
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C. S. Lewis
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” -C. S. Lewis
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” -C. S. Lewis
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” -C. S. Lewis
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” -C. S. Lewis
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” -C. S. Lewis
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” -C. S. Lewis
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” -C. S. Lewis
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” -C. S. Lewis
“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.” -C. S. Lewis
“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.” -C. S. Lewis
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” -C. S. Lewis
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” -C. S. Lewis
“We are what we believe we are.” -C. S. Lewis
“We are what we believe we are.” -C. S. Lewis
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” -C. S. Lewis
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” -C. S. Lewis
“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C. S. Lewis
“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C. S. Lewis
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” -C. S. Lewis
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” -C. S. Lewis
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” -C. S. Lewis
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” -C. S. Lewis
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” -C. S. Lewis
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” -C. S. Lewis
“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” -C. S. Lewis
“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” -C. S. Lewis
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.” -C. S. Lewis
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.” -C. S. Lewis
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” -C. S. Lewis
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” -C. S. Lewis
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” -C. S. Lewis
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” -C. S. Lewis
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” -C. S. Lewis
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” -C. S. Lewis
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” -C. S. Lewis
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” -C. S. Lewis
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” -C. S. Lewis
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” -C. S. Lewis
“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” -C. S. Lewis
“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” -C. S. Lewis
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” -C. S. Lewis
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” -C. S. Lewis
“We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.” -C. S. Lewis
“We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.” -C. S. Lewis
“Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.” -C. S. Lewis
“Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.” -C. S. Lewis
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.” -C. S. Lewis
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.” -C. S. Lewis
“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.” -C. S. Lewis
“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.” -C. S. Lewis
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” -C. S. Lewis
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” -C. S. Lewis
“Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?” -C. S. Lewis
“Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?” -C. S. Lewis
“Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.” -C. S. Lewis
“Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.” -C. S. Lewis
“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
“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
“Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” -C. S. Lewis
“Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” -C. S. Lewis
“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.” -C. S. Lewis
“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.” -C. S. Lewis
“A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.” -C. S. Lewis
“A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.” -C. S. Lewis
“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.” -C. S. Lewis
“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.” -C. S. Lewis
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” -C. S. Lewis
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” -C. S. Lewis
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C. S. Lewis
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C. S. Lewis
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” -C. S. Lewis
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” -C. S. Lewis
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