C.S. Lewis

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

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"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."

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"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

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"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.