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“Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.”

Quote by C. S. Lewis

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen

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The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of novels that follow the adventures of a group of children in a magical land called Narnia. The collection includes 'The Magician's Nephew,' 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,' 'The Horse and His Boy,' 'Prince Caspian,' 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,' 'The Silver Chair,' and 'The Last Battle.' The bonus book, 'Boxen,' is a short story written by C.S. Lewis that provides a backstory for the character of Reepicheep. more

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C. S. Lewis was a British novelist, academic, and Christian theologian. He is renowned for his fictional works, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of fantasy novels that have become a beloved classic of children's literature. Lewis also penned adult fiction, including the science fiction trilogy Out of the Silent Planet and the space trilogy. His non-fiction works, such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain, have had a significant impact on Christian thought and spirituality. more

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“A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.”

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Book:Perelandra

Source: Perelandra

“The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.”

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Book:Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

“Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.”

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“The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.”

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Book:On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.”

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“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

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“We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.”

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Book:THE ABOLITION OF MAN

Source: THE ABOLITION OF MAN

“The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.”

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“If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.”

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“Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.”