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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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• Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. Cite
• All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find,… All
• Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your… Always Trying
• For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like… Act
• The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm… Acceptance
• He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly… All
• Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment.… Appear
• We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely Another Matter
• Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence Any
• Things never happen the same way twice. Happen
• When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting… Badness
• Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards… Admittedly
• The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for… Based
• The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live,… Action
• Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one… Anyway Possible
• The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty… Altogether
• The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more… Beginning
• Good and evil both increase at compound interest. Both
• While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at… All
• Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our… Asks
• The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the… Beginning
• Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you… Better
• I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been… All
• My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my… Any
• No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. All

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