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.

Quote by C S Lewis

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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it...

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it...

What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it...

What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it...

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the...

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the...

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather...

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather...

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact...

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of...

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of...

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot,...

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot,...

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

What we call Mans power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by...

What we call Mans power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by...

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not...

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not...

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to...

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to...

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a...

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a...

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

We all want progress, but if youre on the wrong road, progress means doing an...

We all want progress, but if youre on the wrong road, progress means doing an...

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

You dont have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

You dont have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.