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The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
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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Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
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The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
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You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.
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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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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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The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?
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Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
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The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.
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Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
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So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.
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