Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.
C. S. LewisThe idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
C. S. LewisYou canโt go on โseeing throughโ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To โsee throughโ all things is the same as not to see.
C. S. LewisThe worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
C. S. LewisFriendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.
C. S. LewisThe very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.
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