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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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C.S. Lewis in The Case for Christianity
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

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I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

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Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.

C.S. Lewis in The Grand Miracle
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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You never know how much you realy believe anything untill its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

C.S. Lewis in A Grief Observed
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Some forms of democratic sentiment are naturally hostile to Friendship because it is selective and an affair of the few. To say "These are my friends" implies "Those are not".

C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say ""infinitely"" when you mean ""very""; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

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Men who have real Friends are less easy to manage or "get at"; harder for good Authorities to correct or for bad Authorities to corrupt. Friendship makes good men better and bad men worse.

C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves
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