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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 12h

"I think we must attack—wherever we meet it—the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true” Source: Christian Apologetics

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I know now, Lord, why You utter no answer. You are Yourself the answer. Before Your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?” Source: Till We Have Faces

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation” Source: The Problem of Pain

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"God never undoes anything but evil, never does good to undo it again. The union between God and Nature in the Person of Christ admits no divorce. He will not go out of Nature again and she must be glorified in all ways which this miraculous union demands” Source: Miracles

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come” Source: ‘Learning in War-Time’ in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it …” 1/2

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realising that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life …” 1/2

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it” Source: Mere Christianity

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“If the thing [Incarnation] happened, it was the central event in the history of the Earth” Source: Miracles

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Most of [us] have never really faced the facts about ourselves until we uttered them aloud in plain words, calling a spade a spade” Source: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Vol. 3

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If things can improve, this means that there must be some absolute standard of good above and outside the cosmic process to which that process can approximate. There is no sense in talking of 'becoming better' if better means simply 'what we are becoming'—it is like …” 1/2

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Nothing can deceive unless it bears a plausible resemblance to reality” Source: An Experiment in Criticism

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I am a barbarously early riser … I love the empty, silent, dewy, cobwebby hours” Source: Letters to an American Lady (Sept. 30, 1958)

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“[God] would rather have a world of free beings, with all its risks, than a world of people who did right like machines because they couldn't do anything else. The more …” 1/2

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal … our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously—no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption” From The Weight of Glory

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods” Source: The Great Divorce

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I do not maintain that God's creation of Nature can be proved as rigorously as God's existence, but it seems to me overwhelmingly probable, so probable that no one who approached the question with an open mind would very seriously entertain any other hypothesis” Source: Miracles

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Disobedience to conscience makes the conscience blind” Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation …” 1/2

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"If Christianity should happen to be true, then it is quite impossible that those who know this truth and those who don't should be equally well equipped for leading a good life. Knowledge of the facts must make a difference to one's actions” Source: Man or Rabbit?

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“The road to the promised land runs past Sinai” Source: The Problem of Pain

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still” Source: The Allegory of Love

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Christianity agrees … that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers. It thinks this is a civil war, a rebellion and that we are living in a part of the universe …” 1/2

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“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” Source: Surprised by Joy

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed” Source: The Problem of Pain

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself” Source: The Problem of Pain

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“There is no question of a compromise between the claims of God and the claims of culture, or politics, or anything else. God's claim is infinite and inexorable” Source: Learning in War-Time

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"[The Christian] does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it” Source: Mere Christianity

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“God has made it a rule for Himself that He won't alter people's character by force. He can and will alter them—but only if the people will let Him” Source: God in the Dock

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“[God] is not proud…He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him” Source: The Problem of Pain

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"’What are we to make of Christ?' There is no question of what we can make of Him, it is entirely a question of what He intends to make of us. You must accept or reject the story” Source: God in the Dock

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, …” 1/2

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"He [Satan] has become more a Lie than a Liar, a personified self-contradiction” Source: A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"You asked for a loving God: you have one … (but) not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way” Source: The Problem of Pain

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first” Source: God in the Dock

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“All joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still ‘about to be’” Source: Surprised by Joy

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“In all discussions of Hell we should keep steadily before our eyes the possible damnation, not of our enemies nor our friends (since both these disturb the reason) but of ourselves …” 1/2

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"But God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it—made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand” Source: The Problem of Pain

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood” Source: Till We Have Faces

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“The Christian knows from the outset that the salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world” Source: Christianity and Literature

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all” Source: A Grief Observed

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask” Source: The Problem of Pain

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread” Source: Christian Reflections

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him” Source: Letters of C.S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years” Source: God in the Dock

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Our whole being by its very nature is one vast need; incomplete, preparatory, empty yet cluttered, crying out for Him who can untie things that are now knotted together and tie up things that are still dangling loose” Source: The Four Loves

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C. S. Lewis @cslewisdaily.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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