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[Wikipedia] Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is a

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• According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. According
• We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about. All
• Autumn is really the best of the seasons Autumn
• It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. Acquire
• There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned. Acquaintance
• Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the… Ask
• Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. Break
• Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people… Cure
• If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. Action
• Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured. Cured
• If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it. Acquire
• You cannot make men good by law. Cannot Make
• Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory Agony
• 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,… Any
• If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now Exist
• 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… Cost
• 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:… All
• The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one. Curing
• We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. Evil
• When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever. Funny
• We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God. Admire
• Why should your heart not dance? Dance
• Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning. Inspirational
• Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress. Flag
• You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it… Building

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