Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C. S. LEWISGratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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. LEWISNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. LEWISGod doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
C. S. LEWISTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
C. S. LEWISWhen the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
C. S. LEWISYou find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
C. S. LEWISLife is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
C. S. LEWISDon’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.
C. S. LEWISLife with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
C. S. LEWISIf we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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. LEWISEvery Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
C. S. LEWISMiracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. LEWISI pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
C. S. LEWISHardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
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