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. LEWISWe all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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Love 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.
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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.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Courage 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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It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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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.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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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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