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Nov 29, 1898 - Nov 22, 1963	Quote Rating Average (90%) Author Rating (88%) Groups: Writers Nationlity: British nationals	C.S. Lewis Quotes: (ranking: 620th) Search C.S. Lewis's quotes
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"If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'"	Religion
"You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built."	God, Morality
"Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it."	Christianity
"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."	Miscellaneous
"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction."	Happiness
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves."	Age
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."	Atheism
"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."	Atheism
"Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position."	Morality
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."	Happiness
"Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire."	Christianity
"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair."	Love
"The absent are easily refuted."	Debate
"Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere 'opiate of the people' have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor."	Christianity
"Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art."	Art

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