God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.
C. S. LEWISSome day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They 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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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Miracles 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.
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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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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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God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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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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You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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I was with book, as a woman is with child
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Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
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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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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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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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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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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Nothing is really ours until we share it.
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