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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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• We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise. Any
• If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I… Any
• I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me. Change
• In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we… Best
• Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what… Act
• Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM. Funny
• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me. Change
• The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading… Blowing
• What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as… Age
• Nothing is really ours until we share it. Funny
• Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it. Alone
• Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special… Able
• If education is beaten by training, civilization dies. Beaten
• If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If… Anyone
• These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought… All
• A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women. Adverse
• Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves. Forgive
• When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world. Been
• If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way,… Follow
• The doors of hell are locked from the inside! Doors
• Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago. Ago
• It is wonderful what you can do when you have to. Funny
• Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. Behaving
• The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible Almost Seems
• There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts… Accept

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