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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
From Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
From The Last Battle
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Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
From The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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[N]early all 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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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.
From The Weight of Glory
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
From A Grief Observed
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You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
From The Magician’s Nephew
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
From The Joyful Christian
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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.
From A Grief Observed
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Man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.
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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
From A Grief Observed
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The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
From The Great Divorce
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The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.
From Till We Have Faces
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She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
From The Screwtape Letters
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
From The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
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The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
From A Grief Observed
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
From Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
From The Last Battle
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Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
From The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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[N]early all 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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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.
From The Weight of Glory
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
From A Grief Observed
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You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
From The Magician’s Nephew
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
From The Joyful Christian
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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.
From A Grief Observed
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Man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.
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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
From A Grief Observed
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The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
From The Great Divorce
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The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.
From Till We Have Faces
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She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
From The Screwtape Letters
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
From The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
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The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
From A Grief Observed
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
From Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
From The Last Battle
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Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
From The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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[N]early all 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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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.
From The Weight of Glory
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
From A Grief Observed
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You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
From The Magician’s Nephew
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.
From The Joyful Christian
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When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.
From A Grief Observed
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Man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.
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I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
From A Grief Observed
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The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
From The Great Divorce
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The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.
From Till We Have Faces
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She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
From The Screwtape Letters
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
From The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
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The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
From A Grief Observed
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