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As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

— C. S. Lewis The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)

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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.

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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.

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