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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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• The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. Course
• I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem. Aeneid
• Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived… Adults
• If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. Inspirational
• I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at… Bear
• I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those… Begin
• God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. Divine
• The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the… Bit
• If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my… Bear
• God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head. Children
• If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That… Accepted
• There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and… Able
• It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our… Believe
• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being… Admire
• You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first. First Things
• I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily Duty
• You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. Down
• There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. Charitable
• We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. Interruptions
• And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved. Beloved
• When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that… Badly
• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often… All
• That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia. Idea
• Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends,… Chosen
• Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. Bereavement

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