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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 best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own. Best
• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a… Asserts
• We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It… Ask
• As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is… Almost Unaware
• Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is… All
• The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you… All
• We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge. Cannot Judge
• Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth. Inquiry
• There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts,… Anything Else
• Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. Answered
• No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was… Better
• Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God. God
• One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian. Christian
• I came alive when I started loving you. Alive
• But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not… All
• Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of… All
• Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything. Believe
• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms,… Arms
• It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and… Aesthetic
• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death. Alive
• We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person. Inspirational
• If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on… Along
• If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can… Appear
• If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. Distraction
• Love, having become a god, becomes a demon. Becomes

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