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There is no spiritual sustenance in flat equality. It is a dim recognition of this fact which makes much of our political propaganda sound so thin. (C. S. Lewis)
Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. View quote
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I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. View quote
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Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. to the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful. View quote
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We Britons should rejoice that we have contrived to reach much legal democracy (we still need more of the economic) without losing our ceremonial Monarchy. View quote
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It is certainly the most embarrassing verse in the Bible. View quote
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It would be even worse to think of those who get what they pray for as a sort of court favorites, people who have influence with the throne. The refused prayer of Christ in Gethsemane is answer enough to that. View quote
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You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. View quote
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Does God then forsake just those who serve Him best? Well, He who served Him best of all said, near His tortured death, "Why hast thou forsaken me?” When God becomes man, that Man, of all others, is least comforted by God, at His greatest need. There is a mystery here which, even if I had the power, I might not have the courage to explore. Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle. View quote
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It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play - "Halt!" View quote
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And now, by a transition which he did not notice, it seemed that what had begun as speech was turned into sight, or into something that can be remembered only as if it were seeing. He thought he saw the Great Dance. (C. S. Lewis)
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. View quote
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There are two parodies of the truth which different sets of Christians have, in the past, been accused by other Christians of believing: perhaps they may make the truth clearer. View quote
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If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all. View quote
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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. View quote
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It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. View quote
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He [God] lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. View quote
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The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. View quote
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Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. View quote
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Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it. View quote
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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. (C. S. Lewis)
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? View quote
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Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that. View quote
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There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. View quote
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Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense-love as distinct from "being in love"-is not merely a feeling. View quote
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