Quote from C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
They call him Aslan in That Place,” said Eustace.”What a curious name!””Not half so curious as himself,” said Eustace solemnly.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity
If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe -no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside us as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way. And that’s just what we do find inside us.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man’s mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.”Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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 in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis
To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
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Quote from C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
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