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We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

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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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
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I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
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When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
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I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'
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Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
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Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.
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There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
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Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
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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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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
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I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
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Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
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A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
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The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
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I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to rejoice as much as by anything else
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child.
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