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I want God, not my idea of God.
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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We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.
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Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.
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Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
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No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
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The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.
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A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
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If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
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As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
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It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
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I thought I could describe a state make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.
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We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.
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Prosperity knits a man to the world.
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Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.
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For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
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You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
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We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.
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He cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
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No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
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