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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.
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Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
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Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
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Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.
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Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
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Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.
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Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
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Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.
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Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
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The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
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Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.
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I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
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To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.
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Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
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I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
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You Too? I thought I was the only one.
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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
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