When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
C. S. LEWISAdventures are never fun while you’re having them.
More C. S. Lewis Quotes
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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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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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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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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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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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.
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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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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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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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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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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
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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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