God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
C. S. LEWISMere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
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God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
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Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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