January 2012
14 posts
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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not...
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1949)
December 2011
22 posts
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A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid...
– Miracles (1947)
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The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient...
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1939)
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Symbols are the natural speech of the soul, a language older and more universal...
– Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1954)
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He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down...
– Miracles (1947)
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There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which...
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where...
– Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
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Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the...
– The Weight of Glory (1941)
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We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with...
– An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
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‘Creation’ as applied to human authorship seems to me to be an...
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1943)
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Nature means to us whatever we please as the moods select and slur. But...
– Miracles (1947)
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In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we...
– Miracles (1947)
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We do not merely want to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty...
– The Weight of Glory (1941)
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If [Christianity] offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I...
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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Divine reality is like a fugue. All [God’s] acts are different, but they...
– Miracles (1942)
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To explain even an atom Schrödinger wants seven dimensions: and give us new...
– Miracles (1942)
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In Heaven there will be no anguish and no duty of turning away from our earthly...
– The Four Loves (1960)
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A vague religion – all about feeling God in nature, and so on – is so...
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants...
– Man or Rabbit?, God in the Dock (1946)
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It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been...
– Letters to an American Lady (1962)
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You needn’t worry about not feeling brave. Our Lord didn’t – see the...
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1953)
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Do not let us deceive ourselves. No possible complexity which we can give to our...
– Dogma and the Universe (1943)