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C.S. Lewis

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Quotes by C.S. Lewis

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"