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  • Profession: Fiction Author, Christian Advocate
  • Type: Writer/Artist

C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis, a British writer and faculty member at Oxford, wrote over 50 books & essays, including the Chronicles of Narnia series.  He began his life as an atheist, but after years of engaging in dialog with his Christian friend J.R.R. Tolkien, the famous writer made the Christian Decision, later finding his role to play in the Christian story.   Riding in a motorcycle sidecar enroute to Whipsnade Park Zoo in the United Kingdom, Lewis noted:  "When we set out,  I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. "Emotional" is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake."   C. S. Lewis literally awakened to writing Christian stories and books such as Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy.

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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.

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    The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

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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.

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    The freedom of God consists in the fact that no cause other than Himself produces His acts and no external obstacle impedes them”that His own goodness is the root from which they all grow and His own omnipotence the air in which they all flower.

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    Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

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    The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

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    God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

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    There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.

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    Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

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    Pain removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.

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    But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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    No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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    I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

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    Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

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    A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers“including even his power to revolt. It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

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    Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

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    I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers.

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     A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

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    Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

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    You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

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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.

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    Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

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    Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

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    For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

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    I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

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    To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

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    Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. Belief in miracles, far from depending on an ignorance of the laws of nature, is only possible in so far as those laws are known.

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    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.

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    Miracles in fact do not break the laws of nature.

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    The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

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