Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis , commonly referred to as C.
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“An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”
C.S. Lewis
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.''How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice.'You must be,” said the Cat. 'or you wouldn’t have come here.”
Lewis Carroll
“When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.”
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are”
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind”
“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.”
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”