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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - [Christianity] Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - [Courage] I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - [Christianity] If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world. - [Dissatisfaction] If our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them. - [Charity] No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. - A Grief Observed [Books (First Lines)] Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [Books (First Lines)] My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. - The Screwtape Letters (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [Books (First Lines)]
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