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

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Been Christ Died He Individually Just Just As Much Man Much Only World You

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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Come Does Get Impulse Itch Like Lust Must Out Result Scratching Strong Very Writing You

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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Bore Easier Go Much Pray Pray For See Than

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Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Dangerous Debate Defended Doctrine Faith Just Me More Nothing Own Public Seems Successfully Than Unreal Work

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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.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Another Desire Experience Explanation Find Made Most Myself No Experience Probable Satisfy Which World

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

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Apart Because Cannot Give God Happiness Himself Peace Thing Us

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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.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Cell Darkness Diminish Glory God Him His Lunatic Man More Out Put Refusing Scribbling Sun Than Walls Word Worship

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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Joy Pleasures Sometimes Whether Wonder

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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Bodies Eros Friendship Naked Personalities Will

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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.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: About Afflictions Anxieties Christ Defect Faith Feel Guilty Like Our Passion People Regard Share Sins Some Some People Take Them

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: November 29th, 1898

Died: November 22nd, 1963

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