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Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C. S. Lewis
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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.
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Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did.
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When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
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Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.
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Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
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Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean that's the whole art and joy of words.
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For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
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