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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
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To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
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As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only as harmless as doves, but also as wise as serpents. He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
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But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
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Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.
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They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.
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For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.
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God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
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You people have no imagination!
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
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I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.
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In worship, God imparts himself to us.
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Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day. (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.
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Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.
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Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
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A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.
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