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Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

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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 no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
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It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.
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There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.
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We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
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In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.
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We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.
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If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
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Much is expected from those to whom much is given.
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Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.
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The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
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All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
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Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
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Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.
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We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.
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Only real risk passes the reality of faith.
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