I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
Elliot
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
elliot
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
elliot
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
elliot
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths -your abilities and your failings.
elliot
I believe in God like I believe in the sun rise. Not because I can see it, but because I can see all that it touches.
cs lewis
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
lewis
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
lewis
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
lewis
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante Alighieri
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