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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection
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God knows our situation He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.
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They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.
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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
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Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
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To love is to be vulnerable.
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At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.
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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
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We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
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That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.
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