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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
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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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I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
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Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
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When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.
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Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
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You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
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For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
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Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
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I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)
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To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.
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Only real risk passes the reality of faith.
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Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.
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It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
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There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
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The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
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The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
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