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1. "The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." ~ C. S. Lewis
2. "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." ~ C. S. Lewis
3. "Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ." ~ C. S. Lewis
4. "Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows." ~ C. S. Lewis
5. "Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." ~ C. S. Lewis
6. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." ~ C. S. Lewis
7. "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." ~ C. S. Lewis
8. "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." ~ C. S. Lewis
9. "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." ~ C. S. Lewis
10. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." ~ C. S. Lewis
11. "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." ~ C. S. Lewis
12. "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." ~ C. S. Lewis
13. "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." ~ C. S. Lewis
14. "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." ~ C. S. Lewis
15. "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." ~ C. S. Lewis
16. "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." ~ C. S. Lewis
17. "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." ~ C. S. Lewis
18. "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~ C. S. Lewis
19. "Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind." ~ C. S. Lewis
20. "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." ~ C. S. Lewis
21. "Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult." ~ C. S. Lewis
22. "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." ~ C. S. Lewis

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