C. S. Lewis Quotes

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When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

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Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

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There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

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Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

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I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

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Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

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I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

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Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen.

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Always what we have taken in hand, the same we have achieved.

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"All it means," he thought to himself, "is that he thinks he can do anything he likes to get anything he wants."

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Nothing now remains for us seven but to go back to Stable Hill, proclaim the truth, and take the adventure that Aslan sends us.

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