If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
C. S. LewisEvery object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.
C. S. LewisBut in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isnโt yet, or used to be Human once and isnโt now, or ought to be Human and isnโt, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.
C. S. LewisBut I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
C. S. LewisFor the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
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