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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.

— C. S. Lewis The Problem of Pain (1940)

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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.

Is Theology Poetry? (1945)

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

Perelandra (1943)

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The Problem of Pain (1940)

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Out of the Silent Planet (1938)

If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)

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