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Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.
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Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.
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You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
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Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.
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Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.
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The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.
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Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.
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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.
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God's big enough that small doesn't matter.
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Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.
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I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.
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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see
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Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.
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Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)
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But God never seems capable of moderation
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The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
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Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.
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In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship
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