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History is a story written by the finger of God.
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 ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.
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As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only as harmless as doves, but also as wise as serpents. He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
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Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
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...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.
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The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
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Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
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