C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Suspicion often creates what it suspects."
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Screwtape Letters
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C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"It is always the novice who exaggerates."
C. S. Lewis
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"The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours."
C. S. Lewis
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"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."
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"All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary"
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"A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing."
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"He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand."
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"There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth."
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"Prosperity knits a man to the world."
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"Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey."
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"I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked."
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"Pilate was merciful till it became risky."
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