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You Too? I thought I was the only one.
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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It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.
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Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'
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A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.
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Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that suits him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
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Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear
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The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
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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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I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
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He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.
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But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.
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In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
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Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose it is simply a description of what going back is like.
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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
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What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
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The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.
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That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
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Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
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More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle
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Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.
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Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
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