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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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• Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. Acceleration
• It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the… Close
• It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed. Bed
• Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,… Any
• Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac? Doe
• Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less… Becoming
• 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.… Achieve
• If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this… Bad
• A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys… All
• I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not. Forever
• To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,… Acquaintance
• The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. Doe
• When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours. Allowed
• The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity. Destines
• There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself…… Been
• Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take… Chance
• The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of… Blurred
• The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if… Any
• We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. Crowded
• The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all… All
• There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. Answer
• Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. Best
• Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish… Adult
• We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. Chests
• A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we… Arrive

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