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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt