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The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation reminding us we are not quite at home here.
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 proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
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God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
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There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
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If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.
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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
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Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.
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Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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You can't really study people you can only get to know them.
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The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
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The absent are easily refuted.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.
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