I'm not really a big C.S. Lewis guy, though I really loved "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe." However, I just ran across some great quotes by him:
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.
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.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.
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