C. S. Lewis Quotes About Indulgences

• Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loss, Evil, Decision

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• In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, People, Excuse

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Light, Fog

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Taken, People

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

  C. S. Lewis

  Appetite, Grows, Indulgence

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