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Thirteen Random Quotes from C.S. Lewis
1. "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next."
2. "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
3. "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling 'darkness' on the wall of his cell..."
4. "If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all."
5. "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
6. "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world".
7. "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
8. "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
9. "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
10. "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'"
11. "You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."
12. "The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
13. "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
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