artist Randall M. Hasson "C.S. Lewis - The Spirit and the Man" (c)C.S. Lewis Foundation
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“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling,
whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,
the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet.
That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me.
In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed:
perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
I did not then see what is now the most shining and obvious thing:
the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms…”
C.S. Lewis – Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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“It isn’t Narnia, you know,” sobbed Lucy. “It’s you. We shan’t meet you there.
And how can we live, never meeting you?”
“But you shall meet me, dear one,” said Aslan.
“Are – are you there too, Sir?” said Edmund.
“I am,” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name.
This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia,
that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
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President, C.S. Lewis Study Center – Northfield
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