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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
From Till We Have Faces
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We are what we believe we are!
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
From The Problem of Pain
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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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.
From A Grief Observed
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[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
From Mere Christianity
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Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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You doubt your value. Do not run from who you are.
From The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
From A Grief Observed
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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
From The Great Divorce
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
From A Grief Observed
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My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
From A Grief Observed
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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
From The Silver Chair
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But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
From The Chronicles of Narnia
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If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.
From The Screwtape Letters
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I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
From The Silver Chair
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In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
From Mere Christianity
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If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
From Reflections on the Psalms
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Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
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If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild.
From A Grief Observed
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
From Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
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Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
From The Horse and His Boy
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
From Mere Christianity
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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
From Till We Have Faces
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We are what we believe we are!
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
From The Problem of Pain
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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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.
From A Grief Observed
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[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
From Mere Christianity
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Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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You doubt your value. Do not run from who you are.
From The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
From A Grief Observed
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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
From The Great Divorce
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
From A Grief Observed
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My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
From A Grief Observed
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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
From The Silver Chair
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But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
From The Chronicles of Narnia
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If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.
From The Screwtape Letters
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I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
From The Silver Chair
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In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
From Mere Christianity
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If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
From Reflections on the Psalms
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Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
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If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild.
From A Grief Observed
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
From Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
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Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
From The Horse and His Boy
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
From Mere Christianity
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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
From Till We Have Faces
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We are what we believe we are!
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
From The Problem of Pain
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
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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.
From A Grief Observed
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[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
From Mere Christianity
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Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.
From The Screwtape Letters
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Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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You doubt your value. Do not run from who you are.
From The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
From A Grief Observed
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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...
From The Great Divorce
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
From A Grief Observed
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My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
From A Grief Observed
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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
From The Silver Chair
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But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
From The Chronicles of Narnia
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If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.
From The Screwtape Letters
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I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
From The Silver Chair
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In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
From Mere Christianity
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If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.
From Reflections on the Psalms
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Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
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If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild.
From A Grief Observed
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
From Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
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Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
From The Horse and His Boy
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
From Mere Christianity
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