You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
“You can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
— C.S. Lewis · Faith
The World Motivation
You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
“You can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
— C.S. Lewis · Faith
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“You can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
“The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. 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. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.”
“Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.”
“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.”
“All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.”
“In every single way, have faith. The kind of faith that helps you conquer the toughest mountains.”
“Real faith comes when you facing a problem you can't help, you can't change, and you can't work it out”
“It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.”
“Для того чтобы искренне верить в вечность, надо было, чтобы эту веру разделяли другие, – потому что вера, которую не разделяет никто, называется шизофренией”
“What am I missing?”