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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
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And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
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A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are on concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
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We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.
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Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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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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First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.
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Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.
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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
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Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.
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Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!
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