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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

C.S. Lewis

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved.

C.S. Lewis

A little lie is like a little pregnancy—it doesn’t take long before everyone knows.

C.S. Lewis

4. A Labor of Love

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C.S. Lewis

To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in the nature of things, be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us lovable. We cannot even wish, in our better moments, that He could reconcile Himself to our present impuri...

5. Atheism’s Oversimplification

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C.S. Lewis

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, funny-photo-man-falling-rain why did I, who was supposed to be part ...

6. Chocolate Eggs and Jesus Risen

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C.S. Lewis

There is a stage in a child's life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began 'Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.' This seems to me, for his age, both admirable poetry and admirable piety. But of cou...

No clever arrangement of bad eggs will make a good omelet.

C.S. Lewis

God whispers to us in our pleasures; he speaks to us in our work; he shouts at us in our pain.

C.S. Lewis

9. God's Living House

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C.S. Lewis

I think that many of us, when Christ has enabled us to overcome one or two sins that were an obvious nuisance, are inclined to feel (though we do not put it into words) that we are now good enough. He has done all we wanted him to do, and we should be obliged if he would leave us alone. But the question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what he intended us to be when he made us... Imag...

10. Hate the Sin - Love the Man

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C.S. Lewis

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life namely myself. . . In fact, the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man w...

11. I Believe On Authority

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C.S. Lewis

Believing things "on authority" only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine percent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place as New York. I could not prove by abstract reasoning that there is such a place. I believe it because reliable people have told me so. The ordinary person believes in the ...

12. Masturbation

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C.S. Lewis

For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back; sends the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides. And this harem, once admitted, works against h...

13. The Joy of Holiness

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C.S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis once commented to an American friend, “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, … it is irresistible. If even 10% of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?”

14. The Time To Choose Is Now

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C.S. Lewis

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade, all right; but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else comes crashing in? This time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every ...

15. The Why Behind the What

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C.S. Lewis

When I was a child, I often had a toothache, and I knew that if I went to my mother, she would give me something which would deaden the pain for that night and let me get to sleep. But I did not go to my mother until the pain became very bad. And the reason I did not go was this: I did not doubt she would give me the aspirin; but I knew she would also do something else. I knew she would take me to...

16. Three Moral Concerns

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C.S. Lewis

Morality seems to be concerned with three things. First, with fair play and harmony between individuals. Second, with what might be called tidying up or harmonizing the things inside each individual. Third, with the general purpose of human life as a whole; what man was made for; what course the whole fleet ought to be on; what tune the conductor of the band wants it to play.

To walk out of God’s will is to walk into nowhere.

C.S. Lewis

To walk out of God’s will is to walk into nowhere.

C.S. Lewis

To walk out of God’s will is to walk into nowhere.

C.S. Lewis

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