Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither.
CL
C.S. LewisMere Christianity (1952)
About C.S. Lewis
British author and scholar, creator of The Chronicles of Narnia. (1898-1963)
More from C.S. Lewis
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter XXIX
- Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.Dedication, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
- Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'The Four Loves (1960)
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- The unexamined life is not worth living for men.Socrates
- It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.Socrates
- I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.Confucius
- Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Seneca
- When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.Seneca
- Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.Marcus Aurelius
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