A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation m…

C. S. Lewis
1624 citations
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
Humanity Life Thought
12

More Author Quotes

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of … ▶
I was with book, as a woman is with child.
My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes