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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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How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.
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As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
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Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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If the world is meaningless, then so are we if we mean something, we do not mean alone.
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The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
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Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
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Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
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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.
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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).
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A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
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If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
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If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
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All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
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Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace>Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
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The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
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Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.
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