You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try un... by C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

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"Welcome, Prince," said Aslan. "Do you feel yourself sufficient t... by C. S. Lewis

"Welcome, Prince," said Aslan. "Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?"

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I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

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If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapt... by C. S. Lewis

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost e... by C. S. Lewis

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

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Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life... by C. S. Lewis

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

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Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. by C. S. Lewis

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

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Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the wo... by C. S. Lewis

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

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People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.

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The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

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You can give the Devil too much or too little attention. by C. S. Lewis

You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

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If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

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There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

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Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

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