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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Getting 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. LewisC. S. Lewis I was with book, as a woman is with child
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis 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.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis
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