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" We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. "

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" Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. "

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" Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. "

" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "

" An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. "

" 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. "

" 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. "

" The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. "

" 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

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Friendship

" You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. "

" Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. "

" Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. "

" 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. "

" It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. "

" 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. "

" Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. "

" When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. "

" If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. "

" We are what we believe we are. "

C. S. Lewis

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

" I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. "

" Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. "

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

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

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