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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
C. S. Lewis
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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
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You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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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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