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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see

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God's big enough that small doesn't matter.
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May my living be grace to those behind me.
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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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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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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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If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.) If God gives you an obstacle, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh.) If God gives you more profound hardship, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh. Exhibit A: His Son.)
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That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.
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What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.
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No place is ever the same tomorrow.
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Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
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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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But God never seems capable of moderation
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In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
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Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.
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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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If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?
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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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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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