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“Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.”

— C.S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942), Ch. 2

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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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