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True story. Mostly. And Re-curring.

“Does anyone in America understand American politics? [...] I thought I was going to learn something from an old lady in Connecticut the other day, but… all I could gather was that the ‘Dumbocrats’ as she called them, are a sort of mixture of Hitler, the Russian secret police, and the inmates of the village lunatic asylum: but no doubt this view is a little prejudiced.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 220

“Incense and Hail Marys are in quite different categories. The one is merely a question of ritual: some find it helpful and others don’t, and each must put up with its absence or presence in the church they are attending with cheerful and charitably humility. But Hail Marys raise a doctrinal question: whether it is lawful to address devotions to any creature, however holy. My own view would be that a salute to any saint (or angel) cannot in itself be wrong any more than taking off one’s hat to a friend: but that there is always some danger lest such practices start one on the road to a state (sometimes found in R.C.’s) where the Blessed Virgin Mary is treated really as a deity and even becomes the centre of the religion. I therefore think that such salutes are better avoided.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 209

“I think we may accept it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 209

“But there is something about this endless examining, quite apart from the labour, which bothers me. It sets me wondering about the whole system under which you, as well as we, now live… This of course is what Democratic education means – give them all an equal start and let the winners show their form. Hence Equality of Opportunity in practice mean ruthless Competition during those very years which, I can’t help feeling, nature meant to be free and frolicsome. Can it be good, from the age of 10 to the age of 23, to be always preparing for an exam, and always knowing that your whole worldly future depends on it: and not only knowing it, but perpetually reminded of it by your parents and masters? Is this the way to breed a nation of people in psychological, moral, and spiritual health? (N.B. Boys are now taught to regard Ambition as a virtue. I think we shall find that up to the XVIIIth Century, and back into Pagan times, all moralists regarded it as a vice and dealt with it accordingly).”

-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 17

“Our regeneration is a slow process. As Charles Williams says there are three stages: (1.) The Old Self on the Old Way. (2.) The Old Self on the New Way. (3.) The New Self on the New Way.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 141

“My idea is that unless one has to qualify oneself for a job the only sensible reason for studying anything is that one has a strong curiousity about it. And if one has, one can’t help studying it. I don’t see any point in attending lectures etc with some general notion of ’self-improvement’ – unless, as I say, one finds it fun… I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life’s short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 96

“But I think you are already in the meshes of the net! The Holy Spirit is after you. I doubt if you’ll get away!”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 76

“Obedience is the key to all doors: feelings come (or don’t come) and go as God pleases. We can’t produce them at will and mustn’t try.”

-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 69

“But the New Testament does not envisage solitary religion: some kind of regular assembly for worship and instruction is everywhere taken for granted in the Epistles. So we much be regular practising members of the Church… Some find it more natural to approach God in solitude: but we must go to church as well. Others find it easier to approach Him thro’ the services: but they must practice private prayer and reading as well.”

-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 68

Simple, common problem.

You have a textbox on an html page. It (by default) aligns the text to the left. This can be annoying for numbers.

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To get it to align to the right, you can use something like this:

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