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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
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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 conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
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Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
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Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
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Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.
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The Christian doctrines are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
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Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
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Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, Do you care about the same truth?
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But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.
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What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.
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I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.
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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
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Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?
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In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.
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Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
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