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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

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Mean, Iron, Differences

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

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World, Misery, Cold

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The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

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Real, Dirty, Tests

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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Inspirational, Truth, Believe

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

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Doe, Satisfaction

C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.128, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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The death of a beloved is an amputation.

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Bereavement, Amputation, Beloved

"All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead review - an inspiring memoir, never sentimental" by Claire Messud, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2016.

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You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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Book, Reading, Long

"On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

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Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

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Blessed, Stories, Defeat

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

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Inspirational, Men, Self

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

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Jesus, Rights, Religion

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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

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Hurt, Pain, Boys

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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

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Kindness, Records, Definitions

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.20, Harper Collins

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Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

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Moving, Doe, Hopeless

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.127, Harper Collins

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As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't mean that we should run the risk of making a nuisance of ourselves by witnessing at improper times, but there comes a time when we must show that we disagree.

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Christian, Running, Mean

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Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

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Real, Risk, Tests

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

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Finding Yourself, Turns, Ifs

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Hate, Silly, Men

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

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Church, Waste, Wasting Time

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Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

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Children, Heart, Want

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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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Epic, Soul, Tragedy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

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Style, Want, Way

"C. S. Lewis on Heaven, Earth and Outer Space". Interview with Sherwood Eliot Wirt, www1.cbn.com. May 07, 1963.

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Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

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Men, Rebel, Needs

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

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Men, Care, Christianity

"The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

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Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

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Gratitude, Giving, Give Me

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

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Faith, Godly, Men

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Born: November 29, 1898
Died: November 22, 1963
Occupation: Novelist
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