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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
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I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment the little daily dose.
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Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
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Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest.
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That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.
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Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
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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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Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
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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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Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.
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On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.
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All get what they want they do not always like it.
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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 longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.
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Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
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A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.
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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
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They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
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Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.
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