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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
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They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child.
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Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
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If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.
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In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem in Christianity we find the poem itself.
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My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.
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I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.
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The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
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The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.
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I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. He also said: No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation reminding us we are not quite at home here.
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The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
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I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.
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The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis
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If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
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Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
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