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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. ~ Mere Christianity, By 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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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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...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him... - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory
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If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.
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Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
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A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
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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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It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.
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There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, in the end, Thy will be done. All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is op
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Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
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I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
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Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
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You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
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What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.
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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.
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But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself and am never more myself than when I do.
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Only real risk passes the reality of faith.
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Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.
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Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
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