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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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• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. Age
• But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force… Almost Lost
• I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I… Among
• What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a… All
• The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to… Actuality
• [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… Academic
• He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Been
• He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it… Adam
• Even I never dreamed of Magic like this! Dreamed
• If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an… All
• if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure. Anyone
• 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. Cent
• We meet no ordinary people in our lives. Lives
• It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you… Creature
• Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you… Brave
• It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Enable
• [Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind… All
• So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never… All
• When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to… Anxious
• When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off… Able
• If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to… Add
• That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized… Chance
• To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? Help
• But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once… Advice
• Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's… Art

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