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A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

C. S. Lewis
Men, Knowing, Understanding
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were, one corner of the curtain that hides its mystery, and reveals, in a burst of delight which later and fuller understanding can hardly ever equal, one glimpse of the indefinite possibilities within.

C. S. Lewis
Art, Men, Understanding
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, Religious, Understanding
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

C. S. Lewis
Long, Understanding, Victory
"The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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