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C.S. Lewis

" Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape "

Fear , demon

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" 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." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. "

Death , Christianity

" The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does not exist or that you have got his address wrong. "

Christianity , Atheism

" [God] sees before Him in fact a self-centred, greedy, grumbling, rebellious human animal. But He says "Let us pretend that this is not a mere creature, but our Son. It is like Christ in so far as it is a Man, for He became Man. Let us pretend that it is also like Him in Spirit. Let us treat it as if it were what in fact it is not. Let us pretend in order to make the pretence into a reality." God looks at you as if you were a little Christ: Christ stands beside you to turn you into one. I daresay this idea of a divine makebelieve sounds rather strange at first. But, is it so strange really? Is not that how the higher thing always raises the lower? A mother teaches her baby to talk by talking to it as if it understood long before it really does. "

Christianity

" Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else. "

Christianity , Christ

" We have two bits of evidence about the Somebody [behind the Moral Law]. One is the universe He has made. If we used that as our only clue, then I think we should have to conclude that He was a great artist (for the universe is a very beautiful place), but also that He is quite merciless and no friend to man (for the universe is a very dangerous and terrifying place). The other bit of evidence is that Moral Law which He has put into our minds. And this is a better bit of evidence than the other, because it is inside information. You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the universe in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built. "

Christianity

" I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, ‚ÄòI‚Äôve no use for all that stuff. But, mind you, I‚Äôm a religious man too. I know there‚Äôs a God. I‚Äôve felt Him: out alone in the desert at night: the tremendous mystery. And that‚Äôs just why I don‚Äôt believe all your neat little dogmas and formulas about Him. To anyone who‚Äôs met the real thing they all seem so petty and pedantic and unreal!‚ÄôNow in a sense I quite agreed with that man. I think he had probably had a real experience of God in the desert. And when he turned from that experience to the Christian creeds, I think he really was turning from something real to something less real. In the same way, if a man has once looked at the Atlantic from the beach, and then goes and looks at a map of the Atlantic, he also will be turning from something real to something less real: turning from real waves to a bit of coloured paper. But here comes the point. The map is admittedly only coloured paper, but there are two things you have to remember about it. In the first place, it is based on what hundreds and thousands of people have found out by sailing the real Atlantic. In that way it has behind it masses of experience just as real as the one you could have from the beach; only, while yours would be a single glimpse, the map fits all those different experiences together. In the second place, if you want to go anywhere, the map is absolutely necessary. As long as you are content with walks on the beach, your own glimpses are far more fun than looking at a map. But the map is going to be more use than walks on the beach if you want to get to America. "

Christianity

" Reason may win truths "

Reason

" Authority, reason, experience; on these three, mixed in varying proportions all our knowledge depends. "

Religion , Christianity

" You can‚Äôt see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can‚Äôt, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can‚Äôt get the best out of it. ‚ÄòNow! Let‚Äôs have a real good talk‚Äô reduces everyone to silence. ‚ÄòI must get a good sleep tonight‚Äô ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wastedon a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‚ÄòThem as asks‚Äô (at any rate ‚Äòas asks too importunately‚Äô) don‚Äôt get. Perhapscan‚Äôt. "

Desire , Christianity

" You can‚Äôt see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can‚Äôt, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can‚Äôt get the best out of it. ‚ÄòNow! Let‚Äôs have a real good talk‚Äô reduces everyone to silence. ‚ÄòI must get a good sleep tonight‚Äô ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wasted on a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‚ÄòThem as asks‚Äô (at any rate ‚Äòas asks too importunately‚Äô) don‚Äôt get. Perhapscan‚Äôt. "

Christianity

" You can‚Äôt see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can‚Äôt, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can‚Äôt get the best out of it. ‚ÄòNow! Let‚Äôs have a real good talk‚Äô reduces everyone to silence. ‚ÄòI must get a good sleep tonight‚Äô ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wasted on a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‚ÄòThem as asks‚Äô (at any rate ‚Äòas asks too importunately‚Äô) don‚Äôt get. Perhaps can‚Äôt. "

Desire

" You can‚Äôt see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can‚Äôt, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can‚Äôt get the best out of it. ‚ÄòNow! Let‚Äôs have a real good talk‚Äô reduces everyone to silence. ‚ÄòI must get a good sleep tonight‚Äô ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wastedon a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‚ÄòThem as asks‚Äô (at any rate ‚Äòas asks too importunately‚Äô) don‚Äôt get. Perhaps can‚Äôt. "

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