Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
C. S. LewisIn God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
C. S. LewisWhen the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
C. S. LewisAt all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.
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