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I cannot sing the old songs now! / It is not that I deem them low; / 'Tis that I can't remember how / They go.


C. S. Calverley

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C. S. LEWIS The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by know...
C. S. LEWIS If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting tha...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 A Christian and an unbelieving poe...
C. S. LEWIS C. S. Lewis Centennial Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in i...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
C. S. LEWIS I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own si...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation We must not encourage in ourselves or others...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Pri...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 I have often, on my knees...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
C. S. LEWIS When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the ...
C. S. LEWIS I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly b...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 An essential part of ...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We must never speak to simple, ex...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 If the [Incarnation] ha...
C. S. LEWIS If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad be...
C. S. LEWIS In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the L...
C. S. LEWIS Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowaday...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 The very strength and ...
C. S. LEWIS We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is...
C. S. LEWIS Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses,...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 What mak...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Wri...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabet...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if ...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Continuing a short se...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 The [Christian] "doctrines" are translation...
C. S. LEWIS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and o...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of the Conversion of Paul If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest h...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 To excuse what can really produce good excuses is...
C. S. LEWIS Easter Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any l...
C. S. LEWIS True love makes the imperfect to perfect .... otherwise love is not true.....
BASIL C S We can fight with our destiny ...but one day you should be ready to admit it , surrender to it ........
BASIL C S Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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