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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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• If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. Eat
• The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness. Cheap
• It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. Avarice
• Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. Ask
• If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved? Best
• Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless. Cannot Cease
• An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath. Clothes
• Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. Desire
• No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. Aid
• God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Every Soul
• Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. Christ
• Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such… Believe
• We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness... Born
• The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. Common
• Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. Choices
• If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying. Free
• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. Adult
• Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. Falsehood
• If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. All
• The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. Land
• It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. Barons
• Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. All
• Human intellect is incurably abstract. Abstract
• The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think. Cut
• You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter. Analyze

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