To: Bigtigermike
One of my all time favorite quotes.
Another from Lewis
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
2 posted on
01/03/2011 9:52:34 AM PST by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Bigtigermike
Ha! My bad! I’m still living in 2010!
To: Bigtigermike
The most dangerous phrase in the English Language — “There oughtta be a law....”
4 posted on
01/03/2011 9:53:56 AM PST by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: Bigtigermike
To: Bigtigermike
Mencken was pithier:
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."
6 posted on
01/03/2011 9:55:39 AM PST by
Huck
(Do talk radio hosts get paid extra when they use the word "impugn"? It sure seems like it.)
To: Bigtigermike
“omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Is there any better description of the nanny-statists than this? I don’t think so.
7 posted on
01/03/2011 9:56:20 AM PST by
Personal Responsibility
(The more the plans fail the more the planners plan - Ronald Reagan)
To: Bigtigermike
One of my favorites. Thank you... I now have the rest of it.
9 posted on
01/03/2011 9:57:48 AM PST by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: Bigtigermike
Excellent quote from Lewis, & one Christians & Conservatives should heed as well. It’s almost impossible to talk to liberals/lefties because they immediately start screaming that we want to take away their rights (abortion) or make them live the way we want them to (no drugs, no living in sin, etc.) We have to realize we can’t make others do what we want, either.
12 posted on
01/03/2011 10:01:24 AM PST by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: Bigtigermike
I know—the thinkers who did just that!!!!!! Wish the so called “intellectuals” in the universities were even a forth like this great man. We have way too few people alive today with such a profound mind.
To: Bigtigermike
16 posted on
01/03/2011 10:04:04 AM PST by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: Bigtigermike
Let's all laugh at Sarah Palin because she reads this "children's books" author. < /The View harpy mode>
17 posted on
01/03/2011 10:09:09 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. -Frederic Bastiat)
To: Bigtigermike
C S Lewis had a way of cutting to the heart of the matter. Probably my all time favorite writer. I had never read a more shrewd or powerful Christian apologetic than “Mere Chrisrianity”
18 posted on
01/03/2011 10:11:14 AM PST by
Mom MD
(Jesus is the Light of the world!)
To: Bigtigermike
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
20 posted on
01/03/2011 10:24:01 AM PST by
denydenydeny
(Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
To: Bigtigermike
21 posted on
01/03/2011 10:27:23 AM PST by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: Bigtigermike
That is also one of my favorites ....and to think it comes from a writer of mere children’s books
22 posted on
01/03/2011 10:27:54 AM PST by
woofie
To: Bigtigermike
To: Bigtigermike
“The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What have we learned in 2000 years? Absolutely Nothing.
24 posted on
01/03/2011 12:39:50 PM PST by
sniper63
(Did you plug the hole in the border yet daddy........)
To: Bigtigermike
Printed on a sign over my desk at work.
28 posted on
01/03/2011 1:50:21 PM PST by
Cyber Liberty
(We conservatives will always lose elections as long as we allow the MSM to choose our candidates.)
To: Bigtigermike
I ran into another quote attributed to C.S. Lewis the other day, about those who quietly go about destroying the country.
"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice."
29 posted on
01/03/2011 2:57:08 PM PST by
FlyVet
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