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Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.
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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Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
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Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
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As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only as harmless as doves, but also as wise as serpents. He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.
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If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
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Love is the great conqueror of lust.
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Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?
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I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.
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