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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“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
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