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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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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word,… Atheism
• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. Catholic
• There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have… All
• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. Apart
• We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that… All
• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. Clever
• Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. All
• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Army
• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. Big
• Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Ahead
• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth… Begin
• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. Adult
• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. Gentle
• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the… Ceased
• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. Achievement
• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they… Affliction
• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without… Art
• I gave in, and admitted that God was God. Admitted
• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Cut
• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. Doe
• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light… Creatures
• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. Ever Told
• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. Earth
• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to… Big
• Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. All

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