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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

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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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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The only people who hate escapism are jailers.
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A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
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He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.
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I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
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For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
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God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
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Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior
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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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For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
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A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.
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