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C. S. Lewis remarks that for many readers, it’s not just the events of the story that matter: it’s the world the story conjures up.
Philip Pullman • Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling
Let me hear joy and gladness;
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 130
And he said, “Yes, I know; keep silent.”
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think once again of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the ‘right’ notes and the ‘wrong’ ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tu
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idel was I nevere, And many times have moeved thee to think on thin ende.
C. S. Lewis • The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
There were friends, ancestors, patrons in every age. One had one’s place, however modest, in a great succession; one need be neither proud nor lonely.
C. S. Lewis • The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger to
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