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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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God is not merely good, but goodness goodness is not merely divine, but God.
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God knows our situation He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
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If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
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The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.
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And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
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Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
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and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.
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Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
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The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?
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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
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Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
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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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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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Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
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Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served deny it food and it will gobble poison.
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Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
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Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.
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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
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If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
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