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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. (C. S. Lewis)
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. View quote
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. View quote
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. View quote
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. View quote
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. View quote
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. View quote
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. View quote
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. View quote
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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. View quote
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. (C. S. Lewis)
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. View quote
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The only people who hate escapism are jailers. View quote
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung. View quote
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. View quote
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. View quote
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. View quote
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The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And Man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale? View quote
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We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He has disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed. View quote
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Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality. View quote
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You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the universe in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built. (C. S. Lewis)
Where men are forbidden to honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead - even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served - deny it food and it will gobble poison. View quote
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I think that all things, in their own way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. View quote
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. View quote
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. View quote
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