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.
C. S. LEWISGod doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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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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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.
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I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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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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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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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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