C. S. Lewis Quotes About Inspiration
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Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
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The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
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You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
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The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
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A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
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One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
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The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
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It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.
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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
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Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
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