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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.
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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No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
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Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.
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To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.
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I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.
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We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].
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I believe that many who find that nothing happens when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
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