C. S. Lewis Quote Explained: If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

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A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

- C. S. Lewis

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First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

- C. S. Lewis

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· Ireland

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Gratitude exclaims, very properly, ‘How good of God to give me this.’

- C. S. Lewis

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· Ireland

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We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

- C. S. Lewis

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· Ireland

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You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give.

- C. S. Lewis

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We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

- C. S. Lewis

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· Ireland

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Christ wants us to have a child’s heart but a grown-up’s head.

- C. S. Lewis

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The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, ‘How good of God to give me this.’

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Christ wants us to have a child’s heart but a grown-up’s head.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

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