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“Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter 15

About C.S. Lewis

1898 – 1963

British author and theologian best known for The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. A master of analogy who made complex theological ideas accessible and beautiful.

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