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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Novelist · British · 1898 – 1963

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A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
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We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
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The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
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Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.
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You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
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We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
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The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
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Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.
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But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.
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You cannot make men good by law.
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If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
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Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His _x000D_ being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
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It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
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According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
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Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.
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Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
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The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
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