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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
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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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'
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To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.
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He cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
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Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
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