The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarit… - C. S. Lewis
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The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was an Irish author, scholar of medieval literature, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his essays on Christianity and for the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia.
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N. W. Clerk
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Clive Hamilton
Birth Name:
Clive Staples Lewis
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CS Lewis
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C.S. Lewis
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Clive Lewis
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A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
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[Mortals] say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death.
