I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
C. S. LEWISI don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
C. S. LEWISWe must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C. S. LEWISLife with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
C. S. LEWISThere is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. LEWISGod doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
C. S. LEWISMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
C. S. LEWISWe meet no ordinary people in our lives.
C. S. LEWISDon’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
C. S. LEWISGod can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C. S. LEWISMiracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. LEWISThere are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LEWISNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. LEWISGod 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. LEWISGetting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
C. S. LEWISThe term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
C. S. LEWISCourage 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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