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For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
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 forgive, we mortify our resentment a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.
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No emotion is, in itself, a judgement in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
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Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
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To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
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The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
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As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
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You die and die and then you are beyond death.
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To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
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I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep, not Try experiments on my rats, or even Teach my performing dogs new tricks.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
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The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.
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You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
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