God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
C. S. LEWISOne of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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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 don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.
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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
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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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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.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
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She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
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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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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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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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Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
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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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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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