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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
C. S. Lewis
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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
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Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
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This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
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Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.
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Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
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Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in
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If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
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Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
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