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Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
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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What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child you don't understand.
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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 grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
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The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
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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.
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It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
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Autumn is really the best of the seasons and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.
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Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
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Those who have nothing can share nothing those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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