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. LEWISIf 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. LEWISWrite about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
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. LEWISIsn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C. S. LEWISYou can make anything by writing.
C. S. LEWISSome day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C. S. LEWISHumility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
C. S. LEWISLove as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
C. S. LEWISYou must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
C. S. LEWISDo not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. LEWISNothing is really ours until we share it.
C. S. LEWISPain 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.
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.
C. S. LEWISLove may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C. S. LEWISGod allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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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