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The Son

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Book cover for C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason

C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason by Victor Reppert

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Even though my committee was solidly opposed to the conclusion of my argument, they nevertheless passed my dissertation.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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“Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.”
― C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

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“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

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“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

tags: catholicism, christian-living, christianity, gift, god, inspirational, philosophy, spirituality

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“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

tags: education

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