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" Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones. "

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" The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. "

C. S. Lewis

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Devil

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" Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. "

" The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. "

" This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. "

" I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. "

" With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. "

" Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. "

" History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. "

" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "

" Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. "

" Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. "

" If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. "

" I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading. "

" There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. "

" Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. "

" Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. "

" Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? "

" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "

" We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. "

" Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. "

" Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. "

C. S. Lewis

Faith

Nothing

" Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. "

" It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. "

C. S. Lewis

Easier

Than

" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "

C. S. Lewis

Value

Friendship

" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "

" A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. "

" We are what we believe we are. "

C. S. Lewis

Brainy

Believe

" A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. "

" Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. "

" Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. "

C. S. Lewis

You

Lust