I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C. S. LEWISGod gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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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.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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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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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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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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