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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
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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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Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.
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In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
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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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Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
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Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
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We treat our dogs as if they were almost human: that is why they really become almost human in the end.
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Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.
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From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
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We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.
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As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
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To love is to be vulnerable.
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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
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This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.
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The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
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Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ
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