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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
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The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.
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Laziness means more work in the long run.
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But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.
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It takes all sorts to make a world or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
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I am in love and out of it I will not go.
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The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
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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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You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14 Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.
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The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
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Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.
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Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.
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But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
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As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
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Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!
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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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Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!
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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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True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
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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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